"Please government, stop putting good, professional, public servants in an almost impossible situation by forcing them to choose between two incompatible versions of doing the right thing." Paul Johnson in The Times.
30 August 2021
Presentation on 'Inequalities in education, skills, and incomes: Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic,' for the EEA-ESEM Invited Session “Inequality Was Bad – Will the Pandemic Make it Worse?”.
24 August 2021
23 August 2021
20 August 2021
18 August 2021
18 August 2021
In this note, we analyse how participation in and spending on 16–18 education have evolved over recent years.
18 August 2021
16 August 2021
16 August 2021
Over the last two decades, Sure Start Children’s Centres (and their predecessors, Sure Start Local Programmes) have been one of the most important policy programmes in the early years in England. These centres operate as ‘one-stop shops’ for families with children under 5, bringing together a range of support including health services, parenting support programmes, and access to childcare and early education.
16 August 2021
12 August 2021
11 August 2021
8 August 2021
This observation looks at how the numbers in England on the NHS waiting list changed before and during the pandemic and discusses the key factors that will affect how much they will grow in the near future.
8 August 2021
5 August 2021
Presented "The Impact of Payroll Tax Subsidies: Theory and Evidence" at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
5 August 2021
In this paper we analyse a discrete choice model for partially ordered alternatives.
5 August 2021
This paper describes three methods for carrying out non-asymptotic inference on partially identified parameters that are solutions to a class of optimization problems.
2 August 2021
We evaluate an intervention targeting early life nutrition and well-being for households in extreme poverty in Northern Nigeria.
1 August 2021
In this paper we quantify for the first time the economic costs of fatal and non-fatal child maltreatment in the UK in relation to several short-, medium- and long-term outcomes ranging from physical and mental health problems, to labour market outcomes and welfare use.
27 July 2021