Education and skills

This article focuses on the constraints on parental choice of school caused by geographical location.

In this short note, we examine the incentives that systems for financing special educational needs can create for different individuals.

In this article we seek to address the question as to why parents choose pivate education for their children.

This paper looks at how to design policy on informal labour markets.

In this paper, we use linked survey and administrative data to assess the potential biases that missing control variables cause in the calculation of CVA measures of school performance.

In this paper, we outline the rationale for the use of such measures in education, review the literature relating to several important problems associated with their use and argue that they nonetheless have a positive role to play in improving the quality of education.

Schools, Markets and League Tables

'League table' information on school effectiveness in England generally relies either on a comparison of the average outcomes of pupils by school(for example, mean exam scores) or on estimates of the average value added by each school.

In this paper, we explore a simulation method to produce simple graphical summaries of schools' ranks that clearly communicate their associated uncertainty.

Children born to married parents achieve better cognitive and social outcomes, on average. This report asks why this is so.

This document is a literature review commissioned by the Department for Education into the role for, and implications of, payment by results in public service delivery.

This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005.

This study looks at the impact on criminal behaviour of a reform to the number of years' compulsory schooling in Sweden.

Four distinct pieces of analysis to help us better understand young people's early interactions with the labour market.

This review is aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding of the key characteristics of what works in terms of early interventions to prevent or reduce youth crime or anti-social behaviour.

This is the full report of the independent evaluation of the ECaR programme.

This article addresses questions regarding the origins of individual variations in political trust.

In this paper we examine the associations between gender, family background, general cognitive ability (g), teenage career aspirations, and career attainment in mid adulthood drawing on two large representative samples of the British population born in 1958