Are Timetable-Free Schools Possible?

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Are Approved Schools the Answer?

Jenny played truant from school to visit cafes. Then she ran away with a married man. Carol refused to go to school after failing an examination. She started taking 'purple hearts and slipped out at night to visit London with parties of boys. Daily Mail columnist Monica Furlong went to see the girls parents. Now she asks whether the decision to send the girls to an approved school was the best ...

Are Catholic Primary Schools More Effective than Public Primary Schools?

This paper assesses the causal effects of Catholic primary schooling on student outcomes such as test scores, grade retention, and behavior. Catholic school students have substantially better average outcomes than do public school students throughout the primary years, but we present evidence that selection bias is entirely responsible for these advantages. Estimates based on several empirical ...

Effects of Free Choice Among Public Schools

In this paper, I investigate the impact of a programme in Tel-Aviv, Israel, that terminated an existing inter-district busing integration programme and allowed students free choice among public schools. The identification is based on difference-in-differences and regression discontinuity designs that yield various alternative comparison groups drawn from untreated tangent neighbourhoods and adj...

Recoverable Robust Timetable Information

Timetable information is the process of determining a suitable travel route for a passenger. Due to delays in the original timetable, in practice it often happens that the travel route cannot be used as originally planned. For a passenger being already en route, it would hence be useful to know about alternatives that ensure that his/her destination can be reached. In this work we propose a rec...