Education and skills

This comment piece describes the level of integration between pupils of different backgrounds in Bradford's schools

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia.

This paper focuses on what the increase in resources directed at English universities arising from top-up fees means for the relative funding of English and Scottish undergraduates.

Report commissioned as part of the Centre for Understanding Behaviour Change (CUBEC) at the University of Bristol

We provide a number of contributions of policy, practical and methodological interest to the study of the returns to educational qualifications in the presence of misreporting.

As Chancellor George Osborne prepares for his keynote statement on fiscal policy and the economy the IFS Green Budget assesses some of the issues he will have to deal with.

Welcome to the second edition of the CAYT digest.

In this paper, we use an economic model to analyse data from a major randomized social experiment, namely PROGRESA in Mexico, and to evaluate its impact on school participation.

In this paper, we analyse the consequences and determinants of cognitive and non-cognitive (social) skills at age 7, using data for Great Britain from the National Child Development Study. This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association, Chicago, January 2012, as part of a session on 'The Impact of Early Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills on Later Outcomes'.

In the context of a difficult 2011 labour market, this report examines the early educational and labour market transitions made by young people.

A DfE research brief from the Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions (CAYT).