Professor Emla Fitzsimons

Research Fellow University College London

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

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Orcid number
0000-0003-4466-5963

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Higher education funding

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Many readers are no doubt currently deciding whether or not to attend higher education.

1 September 2004

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Fine-tuning the HE reforms

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The Higher Education (HE) Bill passed its third reading in the House of Commons on the 31st of March 2004. Here we suggest one way in which the implementation of the proposals can be simplified.

1 April 2004

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Funding Higher Education

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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.

26 February 2004

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An analysis of the higher education reforms

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The Government's plans for reforming Higher Education (HE) funding have been a source of great controversy. Much of this controversy has been focused on what the reforms will mean for students from different family income backgrounds, and on the levels of debt they may need to incur to go to higher education. Concern has also been raised about how graduates will be affected by these debt repayments throughout their working lives, as well as whether or not the funds raised will improve the situation of universities significantly. This Briefing Note addresses these issues, as well as describing the evolution of the proposed reforms to Higher Education funding in recent months. In doing this, we set out and explain the system which is most likely to be implemented if the HE Bill is passed, and discuss the ways in which students, graduates, and universities are likely to be affected. We also consider the possible effects on the taxpayer.

2 January 2004