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Education and wages in Brazil

Report

This paper investigates the puzzling evidence on wages and educational attainment observed in Brazil in the 1990s.

29 September 2008

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Level playing field? The implications of school funding

Report

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.

10 June 2008

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Widening participation in higher education

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This lecture, for the IFS Public Economics Lectures series, investigates the factors that account for the disparity in the likelihood of attending university between different socioeconomic groups, and considers the potential implications for HE or educational policy.

23 January 2008

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Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents

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There is a striking increase in inequality in children's home environments over the last 50 years (McLanahan, 2004). These are measured as differences in age of mothers of young children (below 5), maternal employment, single motherhood, divorce during the first 10 years of marriage, father's involvement, and family income, for mothers with different levels of education. This trend is cause for great concern because the home environment is probably the best candidate for explaining inequality in child development.

19 September 2007

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Which skills matter?

Book Chapter
In this paper, we analyse the determinants and consequences of cognitive skills and one aspect of non-cognitive skills - namely social adjustment - at ages seven and eleven, using data for Great Britain, from the national child development survey (NCDS).

1 March 2007