Professor Sandra McNally

Biography

Sandra McNally is a Professor in the School of Economics. Her main research area is the economics of education. She is also a research associate of the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, where she is director of the Education and Skills Programme.

Research Interests

Economics of Education. Current/recent projects include: evaluation of a number of government policies in education; the impact of increasing school resources on student attainment; the impact of the increase in the percentage of non-native English speakers on the educational attainment of English speakers; the effect of careers-related information on  student knowledge and attitudes to continuing in education; mental health and educational outcomes; effects of the quantity and quality of early childcare provision on educational and behavioural outcomes.

Research Collaborations

I work closely with members of the education group in the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.

I have just started a Nuffield-funded project with Jo Blanden (University of Surrey), Kirstine Hansen (Institute of Education) about the effects of early childcare provision on subsequent educational and behavioural outcomes of children.

Publications

‘Every Child Matters? An evaluation of ‘special educational needs’ programmes in England’ (with Francois Keslair and Eric Maurin). Economics of Education Review. Volume 31 (6): 932-948.  2012.
 

‘The Evaluation of English Education Policies’ (with Stephen Machin). National Institute Economic Review: 219(1). R15-R25. January 2012.
 

‘The Effect of Tracking Students by Ability into Different Schools: a Natural Experiment’ (with Nina Guyon and Eric Maurin). Journal of Human Resources. 47(3): 684-72. Summer 2012.

‘Does Money Matter for Schools?’ (with Helena Holmlund and Martina Viarengo). Economics of Education Review. 29 (6): 1154-1164. 2010
 

‘The Literacy Hour’ (with Stephen Machin). Journal of Public Economics. 92: 1141-1462. June 2008.

‘Vive la Révolution! Long term educational returns from 1968 to the angry students’ (with Eric Maurin). Journal of Labor Economics 26 (1): 1-35. January 2008.

‘New Technology in Schools: Is There a Payoff?’ Economic Journal  117 (522): 1145-1167. (with Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva). July 2007

‘Reforms to Schooling in the UK: A Review of Some Major Reforms and their Evaluation’ German Economic Review  6(3): 287-296. 2005.

‘Gender and Educational Attainment in the UK,’ Oxford Review of Economic Policy 21(3), 357-372 (with Stephen Machin). 2005.

‘Improving Pupil Performance in English Secondary Schools: Excellence in Cities’, Journal of the European Economics Association. April-May 2004 2(2-3): 396-405. (with Stephen Machin and Costas Meghir).

Books
Education and Economic Performance. Edited volume of papers (with Alison Wolf). Edward Elgar. Autumn 2011.
‘Have Reforms to the School System Improved Educational Outcomes?’ in Gregg, P. and Wadsworth, J. (eds). The Labour Market in Winter: the state of working Britain. Oxford University Press. 2011.
 

‘De quelques politiques efficaces en Angleterre’ in Meuret, D., and Chapelle, G. (eds.),  Améliorer l’école, Press Universitaires de France
 

‘Economic Evaluation of Education Initiatives’, in Machin, S., and Vignoles, A., (eds.), What’s the Good of Education? The Economics of Education in the UK, 2005 Princeton University Press, (with Carl Emmerson and Costas Meghir).

 

Teaching

Quantitative Methods (EC01015)

Statistics for Economics (EC01020)