General information

• Who's who
  • Researchers
    • Simon Burgess
    • Sonia Bhalotra
    • Paul Clarke
    • Dave Cowan
    • Matt Dickson
    • Francesco Giovannoni
    • Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka
    • Rich Harris
    • Gervas Huxley
    • Ron Johnston
    • Kelvyn Jones
    • George Leckie
    • Morag McDermont
    • Leigh McKenna
    • Bilal Nasim
    • Fabien Postel-Vinay
    • Eleanor Sanderson
    • Silvia Sonderegger
    • Helene Turon
    • Marcela Umana Aponte
    • Jack Worth
    • Edmund Wright
  • Support staff
  • Associates
• About the CMPO
• Press information
• Vacancies

Latest

• News
• RSS news feed
• Events
• Publications
• Podcasts
• MSc in Public Policy
• Intranet

Research resources

• PLUG
• PLUG
• Evidence Reviews
• ALSPAC Forum for Social and Economic Researchers
• Impact of Family Socio-economic Status on Outcomes in Childhood & Adolescence

• The economic impact of the third sector: A capacity-building cluster

Deborah Wilson

Senior Research Fellow

Contact Details

Room: 2.3
Telephone: 0117 33 10821
E-mail: D.Wilson@bristol.ac.uk

---

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.
  Read the article online or download the web appendix (Pdf, 206kB)
• 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

• 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

• What Parents Want: School preferences and school choice (with Simon Burgess, Ellen Greaves, Anna Vignoles) CMPO Working Paper 09/222
• Segregation and the Attainment of Minority Ethnic Pupils in England (with Simon Burgess, Adam Briggs and Anete Piebalga), CMPO Working Paper 08/204
• Exit, Voice and Quality in the English Education Sector, CMPO Working Paper 08/194
• Accurate performance measure but meaningless ranking exercise? An analysis of the English school league tables (with Anete Piebalga) CMPO Working Paper 07/176
• The Formation of School Peer Groups: Pupils' Transition from Primary to Secondary School in England (with Simon Burgess, Ron Johnston, Tomas Key and Carol Propper), CMPO Working Paper 07/172
• 'Sleep-Walking Towards Segregation'? The Changing Ethnic Composition of English Schools, 1997-2003 - an Entry Cohort Analysis (with Ron Johnston, Richard Harris and Simon Burgess)
• School and Residential Ethnic Segregation: An Analysis of Variations across England's Local Education Authorities (with Ron Johnston, Simon Burgess and Richard Harris), CMPO Working Paper 06/145
• Ethnic segregation and educational performance at secondary school in Bradford and Leicester (with Ron Johnston and Simon Burgess), CMPO Working Paper 06/142
• 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.
• Who wins and who loses from school accountability? The distribution of educational gain in English secondary schools (with Simon Burgess, Carol Propper and Helen Slater), CMPO Working Paper 05/128 (2005)
• '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
• Evaluating the Impact of Performance-related Pay for Teachers in England (with Adele Atkinson, Simon Burgess, Bronwyn Croxson, Paul Gregg, Carol Propper, and Helen Slater), CMPO Working Paper 04/113 (2004)
• 'Sorting and Choice in English Secondary Schools' (with Simon Burgess, Brendon McConnell and Carol Propper), CMPO Working Paper 04/111 (2004)
• "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
• 'Measuring Pupil Attainment in English Secondary Schools: A Preliminary Analysis' (with A Atkinson) ,CMPO Working Paper 03/063 (2003)
• '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)
• 'Does Performance Monitoring Work? A Review of the Evidence from the UK Public Sector, Excluding Health Care'(with S Burgess and C Propper), CMPO Working Paper 02/049 (2002)