Socio-economic inequality and academic match among post-compulsory education participants

The study investigates the impact of socioeconomic background on the academic match of students in post-compulsory upper-secondary education making use of detailed individual-level linked administrative data from schools, colleges and tax authorities in England. Academic match occurs when student quality matches the quality of the qualification that they take and is measured using a continuous variable which defines undermatched, matched and overmatched students based on the distance between each student's prior attainment in age 16 high-stake examinations and the median prior attainment of th... Show more

Authors: Maragkou, Konstantina

Published: London, England, Centre for Vocational Education Research, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2019

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: 40 p.

Access item: https://cver.lse.ac.uk/publications/abstract.asp?index=6466

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