Deborah Wilson

Reader in Public Policy

Contact details

Room: 2G6, 12 Woodland Road
Telephone: 0117 331 1090
E-mail: D.Wilson@bristol.ac.uk@

CMPO Working Papers

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Personal profile

Deborah is a Reader in Public Policy. She holds a joint appointment across the Department for Management and the School for Policy Studies. She is currently Director of PolicyBristol and Deputy Director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO). Prior to joining CMPO she held lectureships in economics at the Universities of Bath and Bristol. Deborah was Deputy Director of the ESRC Public Services Programme, University of Oxford, from 2007 until its conclusion in 2010.

Research interests

The effects of choice, voice and other user-based mechanisms on public service delivery, and the impact of targets and rankings on public service performance. Much of her recent work has focused on these issues in the education context.

Forthcoming and recent publications

• Bridge, G and Wilson, D (forthcoming) 2014, 'Towards an interactive sociological rational choice approach to theorising class dimensions of school choice' Policy and Politics
• Benson, M, Bridge, G and Wilson, D (forthcoming) 2014 'School choice in London and Paris: a comparison of middle-class strategies' Social Policy and Administration
• Burgess, S, Greaves, E, Vignoles, A and Wilson, D (forthcoming) 2014 'What parents want: school preferences and school choice' Economic Journal
• Burgess, SM, Wilson, DJ & Worth, J 2013, ‘A natural experiment in school accountability: the impact of school performance information on pupil progress’. Journal of Public Economics, vol 106., pp. 57-67
• Bevan, G & Wilson, DJ 2013, ‘Does ‘naming and shaming’ work for schools and health services? Lessons from natural experiments following devolution in England and Wales’. Public Money and Management, vol 33., pp. 245-252
• Wilson, DJ & Propper, C 2012, ‘The use of performance measures in health care systems’. in: The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, 2nd edition. Aldershot: Edward Elgar
• Burgess, S, E Greaves, A Vignoles and D Wilson (2011), Parental choice of primary school in England: what types of school do different types of family really have available to them?, Policy Studies, 32(5): 531-547
• Wilson, D (2011), Comparative Analysis in Public Management: Reflections on the Experience of a Major Research Programme, Public Management Review, 13(2): 293-308
• Wilson, D, S Burgess and A Briggs (2011), The dynamics of school attainment of England’s ethnic minorities, Journal of Population Economics, 24(2): 681-700. Download the web appendix (PDF, 205kB)
• James, O and D Wilson (2010), Evidence from the comparison of public service performance, Evaluation, 16(1): 5-12
• Propper, C and D Wilson (2010), Competition and choice: the place of markets in connecting information and performance improvement, in: Walshe, K, G Harvey and P Jas (eds): Connecting Knowledge and Performance in Public Services: From Knowing to Doing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Wilson, D (2009), Exit, voice and quality in the English education sector, Social Policy and Administration, 43(6): 571-584
• Atkinson, A, S Burgess, B Croxson, P Gregg, C Propper, H Slater and D Wilson (2009), Evaluating the impact of performance-related pay for teachers in England, Labour Economics, 16(3): 251-161
• Wilson, D and A Piebalga (2008), Performance measures, ranking and parental choice: an analysis of the English school league tables, International Public Management Journal, 11(3): 344-366
• Burgess, S, R Johnston, T Key, C Propper and D Wilson (2008), The transition of pupils from primary to secondary school in England, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33(3): 388-403
• Johnston, R, S Burgess, R Harris and D Wilson (2008), ‘Sleepwalking towards segregation’? The changing ethnic composition of English schools 1997-2003: an entry cohort analysis, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33(1): 73-90