Education and skills

This note looks at trends in education spending under Labour and at the three main parties proposals for early years, schools and higher education.

IFS researchers highlight some of the trade-offs that would be involved in reforming the current system of fees and loans applying to full-time undergraduate study

This Briefing Note reviews developments in welfare policy under the current government and analyses the manifesto proposals of the three main political parties in this policy area.

This Commentary documents in some detail how children's cognitive and social development differs between married and cohabiting parents, and provides a preliminary assessment of the extent to which such differences might be due to a causal effect of marriage itself.

This paper discusses recent developments in the literature that studies how the dynamics of earnings and wages affect consumption choices over the life cycle.

This paper examines changing educational expectations in three British age cohorts born in 1958, 1970 and 1989/90.

This report examines the extent to which the aspirations, attitudes and behaviour of parents and children can help explain why poor children typically do worse at school than children from richer backgrounds. It is based on the analysis of a number of large-scale longitudinal data sources capturing groups of children in the UK from early childhood through to late adolescence.

Our aim was to assess the longitudinal trajectory of childhood receptive language skills and early influences on the course of language development.

IFS researchers assess the rationale for a pupil premium and offer an empirical analysis of how such a scheme might operate in practice and affect school finances.

The aim of this report is to explore how the findings from the experimental research on ERA relate to the impacts that would have been experienced, on average, by all the people who were eligible for the programme, had they participated in the study.

A report of research carried out by Institute for Fiscal Studies on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions. This Appendix provides a detailed and formal derivation of the estimation methods considered in the main report, as well as of the conditions for their validity.