Are university admissions academically fair? by Bhattacharya, D, Kanaya, S, Stevens, M

“…Applying these methods to admissions data for a large undergraduate programme at Oxford and using blindly‐marked, first‐year exam performance as the outcome of interest, we find that the admission‐threshold is about 3.7 percentage‐points (0.6 standard‐deviations) higher for males than females and about 1.7 percentage-points (0.3 standard‐deviations) higher for private‐school than state‐school applicants. In contrast, average admission‐rates are equal across gender and school‐type, both before and after controlling for applicants’ background characteristics.…”

Child learning in Andhra Pradesh by Galab, S, Anthony, P, McCoy, A, Ravi, C, Prudhvikar Reddy, P

“…The effect of the caregiver’s education on child learning is greater for those attending state schools. These results reinforce previous findings about the role of parental factors, and indicate the kind of reforms that are necessary to improve education quality. …”