economics, psychology, policy

In the soul searching that has followed the release of the Leaving & Junior Certificate exams and particularly in the context of the mat...

Applied economists have become enthusiatic users of natural experiments to generate exogenous variation in key independent variables althoug...

The link below has a nice summry of Ed Lazear's work on class-size effects (h/t Alan Fernihough) http://www.hoover.org/publications/dige...

Further to my recent post, I show a somewhat detailed analysis above. The dependent variable is the students reading score which is an arbit...

Everybody knows that schools differ massively in their quality. This is not just - or even especially- an Irish phenomenon. However finding ...

Recently Mark blogged here about a new OECD report with the above title (minus "in Ireland" of course, you can download the repor...

Ferdinand Von Prondzynski generously invited me to contribute a piece to his University Blog and I write about the arguments for not keepin...