Sarah is an Associate Director in the Education and Skills sector. She joined the IFS in 2012 after completing her PhD in Economics at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the origins of inequality within and across generations. Her current projects look at the determinants of early childhood development, the drivers of intergenerational mobility, and the impact of COVID-19 on families' time-use and child development. Sarah is also a Research Fellow at IZA Bonn and of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO). She also served as a teaching fellow at the University College London.
Education
PhD Economics, University College London, 2012
MA Economics, University of Chicago, 2007
BA (Magna cum Laude) Economics and Political Science, Columbia University, 2005
The Government has today announced more details on its new Tax Free Childcare scheme and the way in which childcare will be supported in Universal Credit. The announcement means that the planned system will be significantly more generous than initially envisaged, providing support to children aged up to 12 straight away, will provide a higher level of support, and will provide more generous support for childcare in Universal Credit. Yet the Treasury has not increased its estimate of the total cost, as it has revised down considerably its estimate of how many families will benefit.
Event
5 February 2014 at 10:00University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
The IFS Green Budget 2014 is funded by the Nuffield Foundation, with support from the ESRC through the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at IFS.
