Education and skills

This CAYT report examines the transitions that new graduates make as they leave university and enter the labour market.

This paper estimates the impact of a long-established pre-school nursery programme on children's nutritional status.

This paper analyses the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions.

This paper estimates the causal effects of family size on girls’ education in Mexico, exploiting prenatal son preference as a source of random variation in the propensity to have more children within an instrumental variables framework.

We assess whether ethnic minority pupils are subject to low teacher expectations.

This article outlines how a home visiting intervention in Colombia, delivered at scale through partnering with existing social welfare systems, successfully increased the variety of play materials and play activities in poor households with children aged between 1 and 2 years at the start of the intervention.

We study the transmission of risk attititudes in a unique survey of mothers and children in which both participated in an incentivised risk preference elicitation task.

From an economic point of view, the period since the recession that began in 2008 has been quite unlike any other period since at least the Second World War, including the periods after the recessions of the early 1980s and early 1990s. Indeed, the slowdown has lasted for longer, and its effects on the public finances, on household incomes and on productivity have been more marked even than was the case in the 1930s. This time really does seem to be different.

This checklist has been compiled to allow you to make the most of the NPD to measure the impact of your programme on the lives of children and young people.

This CAYT report provides new insights into the individual, school and area-level risk factors associated with teenage conceptions and the decision to continue with a pregnancy conditional on conceiving.

We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle.