Education and skills

The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer program implemented in rural areas in Colombia since 2002, on school enrollment and child labor.

The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer program implemented in rural areas in Colombia since 2002, on school enrollment and child labor.

We examined the prospective associations between family socio-economic background, childhood intelligence (g) at age 11, educational and occupational attainment, and social attitudes at age 33 in a large (N=8804), representative sample of the British population born in 1958.

This study uses an analytical approach that enables the capturing of different kinds of disengagement, creating a typology of engaged / disengaged young people.

This paper studies the role of labour income tax policies when looking at wage inequalities.

We examine the wages of low skilled Canadian workers over the last quarter century and argue that they fit with an implicit contracting model with re-negotiation.

We study the impact of socio-economic status on dropping-out of high school, finding that, together, child ability measured at age 15 and parental valuation of education fully explain differences in drop-out rates between high and low parental education families.

This paper evaluates a United Kingdom pilot study designed to test whether a means-tested conditional cash transfer paid to 16- to 18-year-olds for staying in full-time education is an effective way of reducing the proportion of school dropouts.

In this paper we offer an appraisal of the economics of education research area, charting its history as a field and discussing the ways in which economists have contributed both to education research and to education policy-making.

Parental demand for academic performance is a key element in the view that strengthening school choice will drive up school performance. In this paper we analyse what parents look for in choosing schools.

This paper examines the impact of <i>in utero</i> exposure to the Asian influenza pandemic of 1957 upon physical and cognitive development in childhood.

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