Professor Simon Burgess speaks to Romesh Vaitilingham about his paper How should we treat under-performing schools? A regression discontinuity analysis of school inspections in England (PDF, 1,069kB), ...
Regression discontinuity (RD) methods constitute a quasi-experimental approach to causal inference that exploits a predetermined rule linking treatment assignment to a continuous forcing variable. At ...
School inspections are an important part of the accountability framework for education in England. In this paper we use a panel of schools to evaluate the effect of a school failing its inspection. We ...