Luke is a Research Fellow attached to the Education, Employment and Evaluation sector. His general research interests include education policy, political economy and poverty and inequality. In the recent past, he has conducted research into the following specific areas: school funding; the impact of the home learning environment on child outcomes; trends in top incomes; trends in child poverty and income inequality; and the politics of tax policy.
Education
MSc (Distinction) Economics, University College London, 2008
BSc (First Class) Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2005
This Briefing Note aims to document the course of average living standards, and those of particular subgroups in society, during the previous three UK recessions.
Previous analysis suggests that some children in households with low income do not have commensurately low living standards. This report aims to document the extent to which this is true.
This document sets out the response of IFS researchers to the government's consultation entitled "Ending Child Poverty: Making it Happen", launched in January 2009.
At their spring conference this weekend, the Liberal Democrats will discuss a series of proposals designed to combat inequalities in Britain's education system. One is a "pupil premium [to] bring the funding levels [of] one million disadvantaged pupils immediately up to private school levels." How effective might this be?
Schools Secretary Ed Balls has stated that he would be concerned if lotteries were used "other than as a last resort", and announced that the practice is to be reviewed by the Schools Adjudicator, to ensure that it is "fair for children." This observation suggests random school lotteries are likely to be fairer than the lottery of birth.
Event
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The Government's latest figures on the distribution of income and the extent of relative poverty in the UK will be released by the Department for Work and Pensions on Tuesday 10 June. The IFS will be releasing a report on the latest figures and recent trends on Wednesday 11 June.
In this Commentary, we assess the changes to average incomes, inequality and poverty that have occurred under the first 10 years of the Labour government.
This report examines how overall levels of public spending on education and schools in the UK have evolved in recent years, how the English school funding system allocates money to individual schools and the extent to which the school funding system is redistributive.
