Education and skills

The new report has re-examined the current funding system for undergraduate higher education, highlighting its uncertain public finance implications.

This evaluation report, produced as part of the Oxfam Effectiveness Reviews Series 2013/14, was co-authored by Bet Caeyers of the IFS Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies.

This briefing note focuses on changes in schools spending in England over time, comparing these with other areas of education spending, and examines how reforms to school funding have affected different groups of schools.

This evaluation report, produced as part of the Oxfam Effectiveness Reviews Series 2013/14, was co-authored by Bet Caeyers of the IFS Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies.

This evaluation report, produced as part of the Oxfam Effectiveness Reviews Series 2013/14, was co-authored by Bet Caeyers of the IFS Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies.

School funding per pupil increased substantially between 1999-00 and 2012-13 in England. In this paper, we decompose these increases in funding per pupil into the amount explained by quantities of different types of staff per pupil, their price and changes in non-staffing costs.

This evaluation compares the education outcomes of Social Mobility Foundation (SMF) participants (collected by SMF via participant questionnaires) with outcomes for a group of pupils with similar observable characteristics (such as performance at secondary school and neighbourhood context), observed in administrative data. This report focuses on the education outcomes for four cohorts of participants with the SMF: the first cohort featured entered the programme in 2009 (referred to as the 2009 cohort), the second in 2010, the third in 2011 and the fourth in 2012.

The socio-economic gradient of child development: cross-sectional evidence from children 6-42 months in Bogota

This briefing note looks at the implications of Labour's proposals for higher education funding plans.

The authors provide evidence on whether providing university students with feedback on their past exam performance affects their future exam performance.

The authors examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children.

The paper investigates the short run responsiveness of National Health Service (NHS) nurses’ labour supply to changes in wages of NHS nurses relative to wages in outside options available to nurses, utilising the panel data aspect of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.

Human capital and inequality in the United Kingdom

Many initiatives worldwide aim at improving financial literacy through targeted education programs, yet there is little evidence regarding their effectiveness. The authors examine here the impact of a short financial education program on teenagers in German high schools.