Online Appendix to accompany IFS Working Paper W14/31

Understand this issue

IFS response to the Prime Minister's proposed Advanced British Standard education reform

comment

The Prime Minister's proposed Advanced British Standard is an ambitious reform.

4 October 2023

Government spending has long been targeted at the poorest in our society

comment

Paul Johnson writes for The Times on how taking account of public service spending is critical to assessing the government's redistribution of wealth.

5 June 2023

The future of student loans

podcast

In this episode, we look at the government's student loan reforms and think about how students, taxpayers and universities will be affected.

4 May 2022

Policy analysis

The changing geography of jobs

report

This report examines the way in which ‘hollowing out’ and other labour market trends have shaped the economic geography of the UK.

13 November 2023

Increasing concentration of high-skilled jobs in London means graduates elsewhere cannot fully capitalise on their education

press release

The current economic geography of the UK limits both social mobility and the effective use of talent across the country.

13 November 2023

Time to scrap the English NHS Bursary

comment

The NHS bursary is a needless subsidy for high-earning former medical students. Now would be an excellent time to scrap it.

14 September 2023

Academic research

Can higher education policy boost intergenerational mobility? Evidence from an empirical matching model

working paper

We use rich administrative data to estimate a novel two-sided matching model of sorting into field and institution within higher education.

26 January 2023

First generation elite: the role of school networks

working paper

Intergenerational persistence in studying for elite education is high across the world. We study why this phenomenon emerges.

14 September 2022

The impacts of preferential college admissions for the disadvantaged: experimental evidence from the PACE programme in Chile

working paper

We study the impacts that preferential admissions can have on the higher-education admission, enrolment and retention of disadvantaged students.

9 June 2022