Education and skills

MiSoC’s education and skills research examines the factors affecting the production of a wide range of skills in childhood and adolescence, how they are rewarded in the labour market, and how they can be enhanced to reduce social, gender and ethnic inequalities

Research area leader: Birgitta Rabe

Recent Publications

• Using games to improve students’ engagement and understanding of statistics in higher education -
  1. Joshua Fullard
• The economic value of childhood socio-emotional skills -
  1. Emilia Del Bono
  2. Ben Etheridge
  3. Paul Garcia
• The effect of foreign students in higher education on native students’ outcomes -
  1. Julián Costas-Fernández
  2. Greta Morando
  3. Angus Holford
• Seeing the teacher through my peers’ eyes? A social network study on adolescents’ teaching quality perceptions -
  1. Lisa Bardach
  2. Zsófia Boda
  3. Claudia Neuendorf
  4. Wolfgang Wagner
  5. Kyle Davison
  6. Ulrich Trautwein
• Educational achievement to age 11 years in children born at late preterm and early term gestations -
  1. Clare Copper
  2. Amanda Waterman
  3. Cheti Nicoletti
  4. Katherine Pettinger
  5. Lee Sanders
  6. Liam J.B. Hill
• Parental responses to information about school quality: evidence from linked survey and administrative data -
  1. Ellen Greaves
  2. Iftikhar Hussain
  3. Birgitta Rabe
  4. Imran Rasul
• Inequalities in home learning and schools’ remote teaching provision during the COVID-19 school closure in the UK -
  1. Sait Bayrakdar
  2. Ayse Guveli
• Invalid estimates and biased means. A replication of a recent meta-analysis investigating the effect of teacher professional development on pupil outcomes -
  1. Joshua Fullard
• Let’s stay together: the effects of repeat student-teacher matches on academic achievement -
  1. Facundo Albornoz
  2. David Contreras
  3. Richard Upward
• Teacher grade predictions for ethnic minority groups: evidence from England -
  1. Hettie Burn
  2. Laura Fumagalli
  3. Birgitta Rabe

More Publications

Explainers

• Are poor research methods influencing education policy? -
  1. Joshua Fullard
• Universal Free School Meals reduce child obesity and help with the cost of living -
  1. Angus Holford
  2. Birgitta Rabe
• Impacts of local authority Universal Free School Meal schemes on child obesity and household food expenditure -
  1. Angus Holford
  2. Birgitta Rabe
• Integrating into school: the role of friendships in the educational expectations of immigrant-background students -
  1. Zsófia Boda
  2. Georg Lorenz
  3. Zerrin Salikutluk
  4. Malte Jansen
  5. Miles Hewstone
• University access: the role of background and Covid-19 throughout the application process -
  1. Emilia Del Bono
  2. Laura Fumagalli
  3. Angus Holford
  4. Birgitta Rabe
• Does it pay to be a teacher? -
  1. Joshua Fullard
• Graduates’ labour market and training expectations during COVID-19 -
  1. Emilia Del Bono
  2. Adeline Delavande
  3. Angus Holford
• How do parents respond to OFSTED reports? -
  1. Ellen Greaves
  2. Iftikhar Hussain
  3. Birgitta Rabe
  4. Imran Rasul

More MiSoc Explainers

Blog

• Peer pressures -
  Angus Holford
• The unexplored impacts of international students -
  Angus Holford
• Exploring the relationship between Free School Meals and childhood obesity -
  Angus Holford
• Designing more robust experiments to improve education research -
  Joshua Fullard
• Advanced British Standard: A-level replacement will require more teachers – but bonuses may not be the way to get them -
  Joshua Fullard
• Why a good Ofsted report can be bad for GCSE results -
  Birgitta Rabe
• Life Course Disadvantage of Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Women in the UK -
  Magda Borkowska, Neli Demireva
• Teachers are quitting – here’s what could be done to get them to stay -
  Joshua Fullard
• Universal free school meals would make a huge difference to the cost-of-living crisis – here’s how -
  Angus Holford
• The value of keeping ethnic ties: why adherence to recommended COVID-19 health behaviours differs among young adults -
  Adeline Delavande, Angus Holford, Renee Luthra

More Blog Posts

Contact

ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC)
Institute for Social and Economic Research
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
Essex
CO4 3SQ
UK

Email: brabe@essex.ac.uk
Follow us on Twitter: @MiSoC_Essex @rabe_b