Elaine Drayton

Research Economist

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

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IFS recruitment event 2023

Event 11 October 2023 at 17:00
At this event we offered an opportunity to meet current IFS staff, and ask questions about life at IFS and our recruitment process.
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The impact of student loan minimum eligibility requirements

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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’.

27 April 2022

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The economics of higher education

Event 22 November 2021 at 16:00 <p>Please see above for details on how to watch this event online.</p>
Why do so many young people decide to go to university? Why do governments subsidise them? Who does and who does not benefit financially from higher education? This lecture will explore these central questions in the economics of higher education in the context of recent IFS research on the financial gains to degrees in the UK.