Education and skills

This paper is the first to apply the principle of maximum entropy to the month of birth problem.

This paper uses data from a rich UK birth cohort to estimate the differences in cognitive and non-cognitive skills between children born at the start and end of the academic year.

We provide the first evidence on whether differences in childhood outcomes translate into differences in the probability of employment, occupation and earnings for adults in the UK.

This report aims to inform policy debate by providing clear evidence on the magnitude of the differences in outcomes between children and adults born at the start and end of the academic year in England.

This report provides an overview of socio-economic indicators that can be used to define educational disadvantage.

This CAYT report discusses the strengths and limitations of several approaches to assessing the effect of education on productivity.

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 note looks at the relationship between reading skills and maths at age 10 with earnings in later life.

This report uses business data to document what happened to a variety of indicators of labour hoarding, as well as investment and training, over the course of the 2008–09 recession.

This paper makes use of newly linked administrative education data from England to understand better the determinants of participation in higher education (HE) among individuals from low socio-economic backgrounds.

This paper studies the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioural problems, grade repetition, and obesity, using matched data from the female participants of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and their children.

This article corrects 'The Distributional Impact of the 2012–13 Higher Education Funding Reforms in England', Fiscal Studies, Vol. 33, Issue 2, pp. 211–236.