Deborah Wilson
Senior Research Fellow
Contact Details
Room: 2.3
Telephone: 0117 33 10821
E-mail: D.Wilson@bristol.ac.uk
CMPO Working Papers
Research Interests
Education, Competition, Performance Management Current research focuses on the impact of competition and psuedo-competition on school behaviour and education outcomes; and includes projects on the impact of league tables and alternative performance measures, the impact of competition and choice on education outcomes, and segregation across English schools.
Affiliations
Deputy Director, ESRC Public Services Programme
Forthcoming Journal Articles
- The dynamics of school attainment of England’s ethnic minorities (with S Burgess and A Briggs), forthcoming in the Journal of Population Economics.
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- Evaluating the impact of performance-related pay for teachers in England (with A Atkinson, S Burgess, B Croxson, P Gregg, C Propper and H Slater), forthcoming in Labour Economics
Forthcoming Book Chapters
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Competition and choice: the place of markets in connecting information and performance improvement (with C Propper), in: Walshe, K, G Harvey, E Spencer, C Skelcher and P Jas (eds): From Knowing to Doing: Connecting Knowledge and Performance in Public Services, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2009)
Recent Published Book Chapters
- 'The impact of school choice on sorting by ability and socio-economic factors in English secondary education' (with S Burgess, B McConnell and C Propper) , in: P Peterson and L Woessman (eds), Schools and the equal opportunity problem, MIT Press
- 'The use of performance measures in health care systems' (with C Propper) in: A Jones (ed), The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Edward Elgar (2006)
Recent Published Journal Articles
- Performance measures, ranking and parental choice: an analysis of the English school league tables (with A Piebalga), International Public Management Journal, 11(3): 344-366 (2008)
- The transition of pupils from primary to secondary school in England (with S Burgess, R Johnston, T Key, C Propper), Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33(3): 388-403 (2008)
- ‘Sleepwalking towards segregation’? The changing ethnic composition of English schools 1997-2003: an entry cohort analysis (with R Johnston, S Burgess, R Harris), Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33(1): 73-90 (2008)
- 'The impact of school choice in England: implications from the economic evidence' (with S Burgess and C Propper) Policy Studies, vol 28, issue 2, pages 129-143
- 'School and residential ethnic segregation: an analysis of variations across England's Local Education Authorities' (with R Johnston, S Burgess and R Harris) Regional Studies vol 40 number 9 pages 973-990
- 'Extending choice in the English health care system' (with S Burgess and C Propper) Journal of Social Policy vol 35 number 4 pages 537-557
- 'Ethnic segregation and educational performance at secondary school in Bradford and Leicester' (with R Johnston and S Burgess), Environment and Planning A, vol 39, issue 3, pages 609-629
- 'What gets measured gets done': headteachers' responses to the English secondary school performance management system' (with B Croxson and A Atkinson), Policy Studies, vol 27, issue 2, 153-171
- 'Acquisition and disclosure of genetic information under alternative policy regimes: an economic analysis', Health Economics, Policy and Law, vol 1, issue 3, 263-276 'Ethnic Segregation in England's Schools' (with S Burgess), Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers vol 30, issue 1, 20-36 (2005)
- 'Parallel Lives? Ethnic Segregation in Schools and Neighbourhoods' (with S Burgess and R Lupton), Urban Studies vol 42, issue 7, 1027-1056 (2005)
- 'England's Multi-Ethnic Educational System? A Classification of Secondary Schools' (with R Johnston and S Burgess) Environment and Planning A vol 37, 45-62 (2005)
- 'School Segregation in Multiethnic England' (with S Burgess and R Johnston) Ethnicities vol 4, issue 2, 237-265 (2004)
- 'Girls Rock, Boys Roll: An Analysis of the Age 14-16 Gender Gap in English Schools' (with S Burgess B McConnell and C Propper) Scottish Journal of Political Economy vol 51, number 2, 209-229 (2004)
- 'Which ranking? The impact of a "value added" measure of secondary school performance' Public Money and Management, 24 (1), 37-45 (2004)
- 'The Use and Usefulness of Performance Measures in the Public Sector' (with C Propper) Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 19 (2), 250-267
- 'The Effects of Regulation and Competition in the NHS Internal Market: The Case of GP Fundholder Prices' (with C Propper and N Soderlund) Journal of Health Economics 17 (6) 645-673
Recent Working Papers
- Extending Choice in English Health Care: The Implications of the Economic Evidence (with Carol Propper and Simon Burgess), CMPO Working Paper 05/133 (2005) forthcoming in Journal of Social Policy
- The Dynamics of School Attainment of England's Ethnic Minorities (with Simon Burgess and Adam Briggs), CMPO Working Paper 05/130 (2005) and CASE Working Paper 105.
- 'Acquisition and disclosure of genetic information under alternative policy regimes: an economic analysis', CMPO Working Paper 05/118 (2005), published in Health Economics, Policy and Law, vol 1, issue 3, 263-276
- "What Gets Measured Gets Done": Headteachers' Responses to the English Secondary School Performance Management Systems (with Bronwyn Croxson and Adele Atkinson), CMPO Working Paper 04/107 (2004) published in Policy Studies, vol 27, issue 2, 153-171
- 'Parallel lives? Ethnic segregation in the playground and the neighbourhood' (with Simon Burgess and Ruth Lupton), CMPO Working Paper 04/094 (2004) published in Urban Studies vol 42, issue 7, 1027-1056 (2005)
- 'School Segregation in multi-ethnic England' (with Simon Burgess and Ron Johnston), CMPO Working Paper 03/092 (2003) published in Ethnicities vol 4, issue 2, 237-265 (2004)
- 'Ethnic Segregation in England's Schools' (with S Burgess) ,CMPO Working Paper 03/086 (2003) Published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers vol 30, issue 1, 20-36 (2005)
- 'Girls Rock, Boys Roll, An Analysis of the Age 14-16 Gender Gap in English Schools' (with S Burgess, B McConnell and C Propper) ,CMPO Working Paper 03/084 (2003) published in Scottish Journal of Political Economy vol 51, number 2, 209-229 (2004)
- 'The Use and Usefulness of Performance Measures in the Public Sector' (with C Propper) ,CMPO Working Paper 03/073 (2003) published in Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 19 (2), 250-267
- 'Which Ranking? The Use of Alternative Performance Indicators in the English Secondary Education Market',CMPO Working Paper 03/058 (2003) published in Public Money and Management, 24 (1), 37-45 (2004)
