Geoff Pugh
Biographic Data
| ID | 5919081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoff Pugh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoff |
| FAMILY NAME | Pugh |
| SIGNATURE | PUGH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Staffordshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9596-1757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Effects of Remittances on Education in a Post-Conflict Society: Evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina
This paper analyses the effects of remittances on the educational enrolment of children in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where a process of forced migration made the relocation decision exogenous. Accordingly, this study has no need of methods to address the endogeneity of remittances. Hence, the approach taken means that the measure of educational enrolment is regressed on a set of individual- and household-level variables. In addition, a new approach to …
Are Forced Migrants More Skilled: A Theoretical Model of Self-Selection in Forced Migration
This article fills a gap in theories of forced migration. We present a new model, motivated by specific features of forced migration during a conflict which do not feature in existing migration models. We incorporate the relative deprivation hypothesis and a new “restoration” hypothesis in order to better explain forced migration as a two-stage process, which starts with conflict and, in some cases, forced displacement in the first stage and cont…
School expenditure and school performance: Evidence from New South Wales schools using a dynamic panel analysis
This article estimates the effects of school expenditure on school performance in government secondary schools in New South Wales, Australia over the period 2006–2010. It uses dynamic panel analysis to exploit time series data on individual schools that only recently has become available. We find a significant but small effect of expenditure on relative school performance and significant dynamics in the school improvement process. In addition, ou…
Export behaviour of SMEs in transition countries
Meta‐analysis of Economics Research Reporting Guidelines
Meta‐regression analysis (MRA) can provide objective and comprehensive summaries of economics research. Their use has grown rapidly over the last few decades. To improve transparency and to raise the quality of MRA, the meta‐analysis of economics research‐network (MAER‐Net) has created the below reporting guidelines. Future meta‐analyses in economics will be expected to follow these guidelines or give valid reasons why a meta‐analysis must deviat…
Do increased resources increase educational attainment during a period of rising expenditure? Evidence from English secondary schools using a dynamic panel analysis
This article estimates the effects of school expenditure on school performance at Key Stage 4 in England, over the period 2003–07 during which real per pupil expenditure increased rapidly. It adds to previous investigations by using dynamic panel analysis to: exploit time series data on individual schools that only recently has become available; adjust for the potential endogeneity not only of expenditure but also of other determinants of perform…
Faith schools, social capital and academic attainment: Evidence from TIMSS‐R mathematics scores in Flemish secondary schools
Social capital theory, recent developments in the theory of identity and a small econometric literature all suggest positive attainment effects from faith schooling. To test this hypothesis, the authors use a unique data set on Flemish secondary school students from the 1999 repeat of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study to estimate an education production function. The results suggest modest attainment benefits in mathematics wh…
Evaluating the Effects of the M6 Toll Road on Industrial Land Development and Employment
n This paper reports the first evaluation of the wider economic effects of the M6 Toll, the UK?s first toll motorway. Methodologically, it contributes to the literature evaluating the economic effects of new transport infrastructure by exploiting a new source of data, applying fresh econometric techniques, and triangulating quantitative results with interview data. We conclude that the M6 Toll has caused a positive development effect at the sub-r…
Should we have faith in not‐for‐profit providers of schooling
Western governments appear increasingly dissatisfied with the rising costs and apparent static performance of their education systems. This dissatisfaction has been manifested in a critical re‐examination of the near‐monopoly of publicly provided schooling. Elsewhere in the public sector, privatization and competitive tendering have been frequently used to reduce costs and raise productivity. However, in education the inability to fully specify c…
What's in a Trend? A Comment on Gray, Goldstein and Thomas (2001), ‘Predicting the Future: The role of past performance in determining trends in institutional effectiveness at A level’
Gray et al. (British Educational Research Journal, 27, 2001, p. 391) present evidence that ‘predicting future “value added” performance from past trends is unreliable’. This note argues that the authors treat the notion of trend in an unproblematic manner; namely, as deterministic time trends. Yet the movements in the data identified by the authors as school improvement trends may not be generated by the deterministic process they assume. Instead…
Reaping the consequences of the Bundesbank's whirlwind in Germany
Do increased resources increase educational attainment during a period of rising expenditure? Evidence from English secondary schools using a dynamic panel analysis
This article estimates the effects of school expenditure on school performance at Key Stage 4 in England, over the period 2003–07 during which real per pupil expenditure increased rapidly. It adds to previous investigations by using dynamic panel analysis to: exploit time series data on individual schools that only recently has become available; adjust for the potential endogeneity not only of expenditure but also of other determinants of perform…
Should we have faith in not‐for‐profit providers of schooling
Western governments appear increasingly dissatisfied with the rising costs and apparent static performance of their education systems. This dissatisfaction has been manifested in a critical re‐examination of the near‐monopoly of publicly provided schooling. Elsewhere in the public sector, privatization and competitive tendering have been frequently used to reduce costs and raise productivity. However, in education the inability to fully specify c…
Faith schools, social capital and academic attainment: Evidence from TIMSS‐R mathematics scores in Flemish secondary schools
Social capital theory, recent developments in the theory of identity and a small econometric literature all suggest positive attainment effects from faith schooling. To test this hypothesis, the authors use a unique data set on Flemish secondary school students from the 1999 repeat of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study to estimate an education production function. The results suggest modest attainment benefits in mathematics wh…
Evaluating the Effects of the M6 Toll Road on Industrial Land Development and Employment
n This paper reports the first evaluation of the wider economic effects of the M6 Toll, the UK?s first toll motorway. Methodologically, it contributes to the literature evaluating the economic effects of new transport infrastructure by exploiting a new source of data, applying fresh econometric techniques, and triangulating quantitative results with interview data. We conclude that the M6 Toll has caused a positive development effect at the sub-r…
Are Forced Migrants More Skilled: A Theoretical Model of Self-Selection in Forced Migration
This article fills a gap in theories of forced migration. We present a new model, motivated by specific features of forced migration during a conflict which do not feature in existing migration models. We incorporate the relative deprivation hypothesis and a new “restoration” hypothesis in order to better explain forced migration as a two-stage process, which starts with conflict and, in some cases, forced displacement in the first stage and cont…
Reaping the consequences of the Bundesbank's whirlwind in Germany
What's in a Trend? A Comment on Gray, Goldstein and Thomas (2001), ‘Predicting the Future: The role of past performance in determining trends in institutional effectiveness at A level’
Gray et al. (British Educational Research Journal, 27, 2001, p. 391) present evidence that ‘predicting future “value added” performance from past trends is unreliable’. This note argues that the authors treat the notion of trend in an unproblematic manner; namely, as deterministic time trends. Yet the movements in the data identified by the authors as school improvement trends may not be generated by the deterministic process they assume. Instead…
Should we have faith in not‐for‐profit providers of schooling
Western governments appear increasingly dissatisfied with the rising costs and apparent static performance of their education systems. This dissatisfaction has been manifested in a critical re‐examination of the near‐monopoly of publicly provided schooling. Elsewhere in the public sector, privatization and competitive tendering have been frequently used to reduce costs and raise productivity. However, in education the inability to fully specify c…
Faith schools, social capital and academic attainment: Evidence from TIMSS‐R mathematics scores in Flemish secondary schools
Social capital theory, recent developments in the theory of identity and a small econometric literature all suggest positive attainment effects from faith schooling. To test this hypothesis, the authors use a unique data set on Flemish secondary school students from the 1999 repeat of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study to estimate an education production function. The results suggest modest attainment benefits in mathematics wh…
Evaluating the Effects of the M6 Toll Road on Industrial Land Development and Employment
n This paper reports the first evaluation of the wider economic effects of the M6 Toll, the UK?s first toll motorway. Methodologically, it contributes to the literature evaluating the economic effects of new transport infrastructure by exploiting a new source of data, applying fresh econometric techniques, and triangulating quantitative results with interview data. We conclude that the M6 Toll has caused a positive development effect at the sub-r…
Do increased resources increase educational attainment during a period of rising expenditure? Evidence from English secondary schools using a dynamic panel analysis
This article estimates the effects of school expenditure on school performance at Key Stage 4 in England, over the period 2003–07 during which real per pupil expenditure increased rapidly. It adds to previous investigations by using dynamic panel analysis to: exploit time series data on individual schools that only recently has become available; adjust for the potential endogeneity not only of expenditure but also of other determinants of perform…
Meta‐analysis of Economics Research Reporting Guidelines
Meta‐regression analysis (MRA) can provide objective and comprehensive summaries of economics research. Their use has grown rapidly over the last few decades. To improve transparency and to raise the quality of MRA, the meta‐analysis of economics research‐network (MAER‐Net) has created the below reporting guidelines. Future meta‐analyses in economics will be expected to follow these guidelines or give valid reasons why a meta‐analysis must deviat…
Export behaviour of SMEs in transition countries
School expenditure and school performance: Evidence from New South Wales schools using a dynamic panel analysis
This article estimates the effects of school expenditure on school performance in government secondary schools in New South Wales, Australia over the period 2006–2010. It uses dynamic panel analysis to exploit time series data on individual schools that only recently has become available. We find a significant but small effect of expenditure on relative school performance and significant dynamics in the school improvement process. In addition, ou…
The Effects of Remittances on Education in a Post-Conflict Society: Evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina
This paper analyses the effects of remittances on the educational enrolment of children in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where a process of forced migration made the relocation decision exogenous. Accordingly, this study has no need of methods to address the endogeneity of remittances. Hence, the approach taken means that the measure of educational enrolment is regressed on a set of individual- and household-level variables. In addition, a new approach to …
Are Forced Migrants More Skilled: A Theoretical Model of Self-Selection in Forced Migration
This article fills a gap in theories of forced migration. We present a new model, motivated by specific features of forced migration during a conflict which do not feature in existing migration models. We incorporate the relative deprivation hypothesis and a new “restoration” hypothesis in order to better explain forced migration as a two-stage process, which starts with conflict and, in some cases, forced displacement in the first stage and cont…
Economics (11 works) · Econometrics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · School Choice and Performance (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Panel data (3 works)