Claire is a Research Fellow of the IFS and Assistant Professor of Economics at the UCL Institute of Education.
She was previously affiliated with the University of Birmingham and Programme Director of the Skills sector at IFS. Her research interests focus on the determinants of educational attainment and HE participation, including the roles of socio-economic status, expectations and aspirations, month of birth and parents' marital status. She is particularly interested in how education policy can be used to improve the outcomes of children from disadvantaged backgrounds, and has played a leading role in the evaluations of a number of education programmes aiming to do just that, including on behalf of the Department of Education and the Education Endowment Foundation.
This report estimates the impact of the lone parent pilots on the benefit and work outcomes of lone parents who had been receiving Income Support (IS) or Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA).
New research published today by the Department for Work and Pensions estimates the labour market impact of a set of five government policies designed to help lone parents into work.
This study examined why young people from poor families have lower attainment in school, are more likely to become NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) after compulsory education, and are more likely to participate in a range of risky behaviours whilst teenagers.
This report makes use of newly linked administrative data to better understand the determinants of participation in HE - and participation in high status universities - amongst those facing socio-economic disadvantage, those from poorly educated families and ethnic minorities.
This draft report makes use of newly linked administrative data to better understand the determinants of participation in HE - and participation in high status universities - amongst those facing socio-economic disadvantage, those from poorly educated families and ethnic minorities.
This Finance Act note discusses the changes to the small companies tax rate announced in the 2007 Budget in the wider context of the problems of small business taxation.
This report looks at why the youngest children in each academic year performing more poorly, on average, than the older members of their cohort and what, if anything, should be done in light of these disparities.
This report looks at why the youngest children in each academic year performing more poorly, on average, than the older members of their cohort and what, if anything, should be done in light of these disparities.
