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How to reduce child poverty: compare the policy options
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Use these charts to compare policies for reducing child poverty and to examine how child poverty rates have changed over time across different groups.
3 October 2024
How can government reduce child poverty?
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We're exploring why there's been an increase in child poverty since 2010 and options the government has to reduce this.
3 October 2024
Are people saving enough into their pensions?
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Automatic enrolment has been successful in getting more people into workplace pensions, but are they saving enough?
20 September 2024
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IFS recruitment event 2024
event 14 October 2024
At this online event we will offer an opportunity to meet current IFS staff, and ask questions about life at IFS and our recruitment process.
What did Sure Start do for youth offending, children's social care, and school behaviour?
event 23 October 2024
In this online event we will present findings on the effect of Sure Start on a range of outcomes throughout childhood and adolescence.
IFS Zooms In Live: How to make your first Budget a success
event 23 October 2024
Join us for a special in-person recording of an episode of the IFS podcast the week ahead of Rachel Reeves' all-important first Budget.
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Education and skills

Our work on Education and Skills aims to understand what matters for the healthy development of children, from infancy to young adulthood. It tracks education spending in various stages of education and assesses the effectiveness of government policies at improving children’s outcomes and inequalities therein.

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Election Special: Is there a 'conspiracy of silence' between both parties?

Podcast

In this episode, we discuss the tight fiscal situation after the next budget, and also look at how the education system is faring.

6 June 2024

The state of education: what awaits the next government?

Report

The next government will inherit a mixed legacy: England is one of the world’s top performers in school attainment but there are deep inequalities.

6 June 2024

School spending in England: a guide to the debate during the 2024 general election

Report

This report seeks to inform the debate on school funding during the 2024 general election by analysing past trends and likely future pressures.

4 June 2024

The intergenerational elasticity of earnings: Exploring the mechanisms

Working Paper

We use data covering a single cohort’s ﬁrst 55 years of life to explain the differences in the intergenerational elasticity of earnings.

3 June 2024

Labour’s ‘Growth and Skills’ levy would give more flexibility to firms – but employers would still need to get on board

Comment

How might Labour’s proposal to broaden the Apprenticeship Levy into a ‘Growth and Skills’ Levy affect training rates, especially for young people?

1 June 2024

What does the Conservative's higher education announcement this week mean for apprenticeships and 'low-value' university courses?

Explainer

IFS Associate Director Christine Farquharson explains.

1 June 2024

Conservative plans to abolish the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to help fund a new National Service scheme would hit poorest parts of the UK

Comment

Abolishing the UK Shared Prosperity Fund would see poorer parts of the UK lose hundreds of millions in funding – with Cornwall and Wales hardest hit.

29 May 2024

High-skilled apprenticeships have high returns – but funding via a ‘crackdown’ on higher education courses is challenging

Comment

This comment analyses the Conservative Party’s plan to increase the number of high-skilled apprenticeships.

29 May 2024

Election Special: What you need to know

Podcast

In our first election special, we look at the broad economic picture and analyse announcements about the fiscal rules, the triple lock and tax.

28 May 2024

Targeting men, women or both to reduce child marriage

Working Paper

We conduct a cluster-randomized control trial of an edutainment intervention aimed at delaying marriage of adolescent children in rural Pakistan.

28 May 2024

Leveraging edutainment and social networks to foster interethnic harmony

Working Paper

Using a cluster-randomised field experiment, this paper investigates the effectiveness of educational entertainment in promoting interethnic harmony.

10 May 2024

Imagine your life at 25: Gender conformity and later-life outcomes

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We analyse thousands of essays written by 11-year-old girls in 1969 to assess conformity with gender norms and its implications for future outcomes.

24 April 2024

Sure Start achieved its aims, then we threw it away

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"We know that poor children grow up with poor life chances. We know how to ameliorate that. The choice is ours." Paul Johnson writes for the Times.

15 April 2024

The short- and medium-term impacts of Sure Start on educational outcomes

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We study the medium-run effect of Sure Start on academic outcomes, finding large benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

9 April 2024

Children playing with bricks in a sure start centre

What did Sure Start do for performance in school? (Presentations)

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In this online event we presented the findings of a new report, showing the effect of Sure Start on educational performance in school up to age 16.

9 April 2024

A mess has been made of Child Benefit, and the clear-up operation may not be easy

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"Status quos can be hard to change, no matter how incoherent they are." Robert Joyce writes about child benefit in The Telegraph.

29 March 2024

What you need to know about the new childcare entitlements

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This comment looks at who will be eligible for free childcare, whether funding is high enough and what impact the new entitlements might have.

28 March 2024

Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers

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We investigate the importance of social skills as a driver of wage growth for workers with lower formal education.

27 March 2024

Major challenges for education in Wales

Report

This report examines the major challenges for education in Wales, including low outcomes across a range of measures and high levels of inequality.

21 March 2024

Willingness to pay for improved public education and public healthcare systems: the role of income mobility prospects

Journal article

These findings are based on more than 19,000 observations from the third round of the Life in Transition Survey.

14 March 2024

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