Emla Fitzsimons is a Professor of Economics at the UCL Institute of Education and a Research Fellow, attached to the Centre for Evaluation of Development Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She worked at the IFS for 14 years prior to taking up the position of Professor of Economics and Director of the Millennium Cohort Study at the Institute of Education.
Her research on early childhood aims at understanding how early experiences and parental investments affect longer-term outcomes. For instance, she is using the Millennium Cohort Study to understand the impacts of breastfeeding on outcomes later on in childhood. She led a project in Colombia that implemented and evaluated a home visiting programme, with the aim of surveying the children through time and understanding the longer term effects of the programme. She has extensive research analysing how policies affect young people's schooling and labour market choices – including programmes in the UK and Colombia providing subsidies to stay on in post-compulsory schooling, and the system of higher education finance in the UK
Education
PhD Economics, University College London, 2004
Higher Diploma (First Class Honours) Education, University College Dublin, 1997
MA (First Class Honours) Economics, University College Dublin, 1996
Bachelor (Second Class Honours) Actuarial and Financial Studies , University College Dublin, 1995
This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the head from the household, mainly due to death or divorce, affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia.
This article undertakes a quantitative analysis of substantial reforms to the system of higher education finance in England, first announced in 2004 and revised in 2007.
This presentation, for the IFS Public Economics Lectures series, looks at reforms to the way in which higher education is funded and what impact these reforms have on students and graduates.
The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour.
This research is part of a large evaluation effort, undertaken by a consortium formed by IFS, Econometria and SEI, which has considered the effects of Familias en Acción on a variety of outcomes one year after its implementation.
This is the fourth and final report of the longitudinal evaluation of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) pilots which followed two cohorts of young people who completed Year 11 in the summers of 1999 and 2000.
This Election Briefing Note compares Labour's proposed reforms to the system of higher education (HE) finance in England and the alternative proposals outlined by the Conservative Party in September 20042 and the Liberal Democrats in January and March 2005.
This commentary compares the university funding of Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. These policies have important implications for students, graduates, universities and taxpayers.
This lecture, for the IFS Public Economics Lectures series, focuses on government intervention in the funding of higher education and outlines the implications of these provisions for students, graduates, universities and the tax payer.
In this Briefing Note, we will focus on the programme Familias en Acción, the conditional cash-transfer programme implemented by the Colombian government from 2001/02.
