Allen, R. (2012) Measuring foundation school effectiveness using English administrative data, survey data and a regression discontinuity design, Education Economics, forthcoming, DOI:10.1080/09645292.2012.687197. [Early version of research is available here: DoQSS Working Paper No. 10/02]
Allen, R., Burgess, S. and McKenna, L. (2012) The early impact of Brighton and Hove’s school admission reforms, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, forthcoming. [Early version of research available here CMPO working paper No. 10/244]
Allen, R. (2011) The economics of education, in B. Dufour and W. Curtis (eds) Studying education: An introduction to the key disciplines in education studies, UK: Open University Press. [Available on Amazon].
Allen, R., Coldron, J. and West, A. (2011) The effect of changes in published secondary school admissions on social composition, Journal of Education Policy, iFirst, DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2011.604137 [This article is based on work from this Department for Education project: DfE Research Report RR038].
Grubb, W.N. and Allen, R. (2011) Rethinking school funding, resources, incentives, and outcomes, Journal of Educational Change, 12(1)121-130.
Allen, R. and Burgess, S. (2011) Can school league tables help parents choose schools? Fiscal Studies, 32(2)245-261.
Allen, R. and West, A. (2011) Why do faith secondary schools have advantaged intakes? The relative importance of neighbourhood characteristics, social background and religious identification amongst parents, British Educational Research Journal, 37(4)691-712.
Singleton, A.D., Longley, P.A., Allen, R. and O’Brien, O. (2011) Estimating secondary school catchment areas and the spatial equity of access, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 35(3)241-249.
Allen, R. and Burgess, S. (2010) The future of competition and accountability in education, 2020 Public Services Trust at the RSA report.
Allen, R. (2010) Replicating Swedish free school reforms in England, Research in Public Policy (CMPO Bulletin), Issue 10, pp. 4-7.
Allen, R. and West, A. (2009) Religious schools in London: school admissions, religious composition and selectivity, Oxford Review of Education, 35(4)471-494. [An early version of this research appeared in 2007 as a Summer 2007 BERA conference paper]
Allen, R. and West, A. (2009) Response to Grace’s reflections on Allen and West’s paper, Oxford Review of Education, 35(4)505-507.
Allen, R. and West, A. (2008) Diversity of school provision: faith schools, memorandum submitted to the House of Commons select committee on children, schools and families, London: H.M.S.O..
Allen, R. (2008) Choice-based secondary school admissions in England: Social stratification and the distribution of educational outcomes, PhD Thesis (available at http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/632/).
Allen, R. and Vignoles, A. (2007) What should an index of school segregation measure?, Oxford Review of Education, 33(5)643-668. [A copyright free version is available on IOE eprints].
Allen, R. (2007) Allocating pupils to their nearest school: the consequences for ability and social stratification, Urban Studies, 44(4)751-770. [A copyright free version is available on IOE eprints].
Allen, R. and Vignoles, A. (2007) Market incentives in schools, in Frank Coffield and Richard Steer (eds) Public sector reform: principles for improving the education system, London: Institute of Education.
Discussion papers
Allen, R. and Burgess, S. (2012) How should we treat under-performing schools? A regression discontinuity analysis of school inspections in England, CMPO working paper No. 12/87 and DoQSS working paper No. 12/02.
Allen, R., Burgess, S., Rasul, I. and McKenna, L. (2012) Understanding school financial decisions, Department for Education Research Report DFE-RR183.
Allen, R., Burgess, S. and Key, T. (2010) Choosing secondary schools by moving house: school quality and the formation of neighbourhoods, CMPO working paper No. 10/238.
Allen, R. and Vignoles, A. (2009) Can school competition improve standards? The case of faith schools in England, DoQSS Working Paper No. 09/04.
Allen, R., Burgess, S. and Windmeijer, F. (2009) More reliable inference for segregation indices, CMPO working paper No. 09/216.
Levačić, R., Jenkins, A., Vignoles, A., Steele, F. and Allen, R. (2005) Estimating the relationship between school resources and pupil attainment at Key Stage 3, DfES Research Report No. 679.
Duthilleul, Y. and Allen, R. (2005) Which teachers make a difference? Implications for policy makers in SACMEQ countries, IIEP discussion paper (available on request).
