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 was based on work from this DfE 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 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., Burgess, S. and McKenna, L. (2010) The early impact of Brighton and Hove’s school admission reforms, CMPO working paper No. 10/244.
Allen, R. and Burgess, S. (2010) Evaluating the provision of school performance information for school choice, CMPO working paper No. 10/241.
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. (2010) Does school autonomy improve educational outcomes? Judging the performance of foundation secondary schools in England, DoQSS Working Paper No. 10/02.
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.
Allen, R. (2007) Does school governance matter for pupil achievement? The long-term impact of the Grant-Maintained schools policy, Summer 2007 BERA conference paper.
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).
