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Richard Murphy
Researcher at University of Texas at Austin
Publications - 47
Citations - 662
Richard Murphy is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rank (computer programming) & Higher education. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 47 publications receiving 513 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard Murphy include Centre for Economic Performance & National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Ill Communication: Technology, distraction & student performance
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of mobile phone bans on student test scores was investigated by surveying schools in four English cities regarding their mobile phone policies and combining it with administrative data, exploiting variations in schools' autonomous decisions to ban these devices, conditioning on a range of student characteristics and prior achievement.
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The Changing Economic Advantage from Private Schools
TL;DR: This article showed that private schools have been successful in transforming their ability to generate the academic outputs that are most in demand in the modern economy: the private/state school wage differential has risen significantly over time, and a significant factor has been faster rising educational attainment for privately-educated individuals.
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Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank
Richard Murphy,Felix Weinhardt +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that ordinal academic rank during primary school has lasting impacts on secondary school achievement that are independent of underlying ability, and the effects are especially pronounced for boys, contributing to an observed gender gap in the number of Maths courses chosen at the end of secondary school.
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Minority report: the impact of predicted grades on university admissions of disadvantaged groups
Richard Murphy,Gill Wyness +1 more
TL;DR: This article studied the UK's university application system, in which students apply based on predicted examination grades, rather than actual results, and used three years of UK university applications data to study it.
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The end of free college in England: Implications for enrolments, equity, and quality
TL;DR: This paper examined the consequences of charging tuition fees on university enrolments, equity, and proxies for institutional quality in the English higher education system and found that such fees resulted in increased funding per head and rising enrolments with no apparent widening gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students.