IFS researchers assess the rationale for a pupil premium and offer an empirical analysis of how such a scheme might operate in practice and affect school finances.
The aim of this report is to explore how the findings from the experimental research on ERA relate to the impacts that would have been experienced, on average, by all the people who were eligible for the programme, had they participated in the study.
As the Government and Opposition alike ponder how best to repair Britain's battered public finances, the Green Budget looks at some of the salient economic issues.
This report documents the dynamic patterns in work and poverty for families using data for the years 2001 to 2006 from the Families and Children Study.
This note compares three policies that have been recently suggested which would change the way that families with children are treated by the tax and benefit system.
This study uses an analytical approach that enables the capturing of different kinds of disengagement, creating a typology of engaged / disengaged young people.
New research published today by the Department for Work and Pensions estimates the labour market impact of a set of five government policies designed to help lone parents into work.
This report estimates the impact of the lone parent pilots on the benefit and work outcomes of lone parents who had been receiving Income Support (IS) or Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA).
The aim of this paper is to examine ways of paying for the increased cost/price of 'centrebased' early education and care required to achieve Daycare Trust's high quality model for children aged under five in England.
Parental demand for academic performance is a key element in the view that strengthening school choice will drive up school performance. In this paper we analyse what parents look for in choosing schools.
This paper makes use of the Family Resources Survey and the Labour Force Survey. It is the final report for a project commissioned by the Low Pay Commission.
