Elaine joined the IFS in 2020 and works in the Education and Skills sector. Her research focuses on inequalities in education and labour market outcomes and their relationship with early life conditions. She is also interested in the spatial dimension of inequalities and their local determinants, including access to housing, education and jobs. Ongoing work includes analysing trends in education spending in England, studying the impact of school choice systems on neighbourhood and school segregation and examining the determinants of housing supply elasticities.
Education
MSc (Distinction) Economics, University College London, 2018
BSc (1st Class Honours) Economics, University College London, 2017
We consider who would be affected by each of the proposed MERs, and then assess whether the introduction of a minimum eligibility requirement is likely to achieve the government’s stated aim of ensuring that ‘students undertaking degree study have attained the baseline skills required to engage with and benefit from the course’.
