Education and skills

This paper investigates the puzzling evidence on wages and educational attainment observed in Brazil in the 1990s.

We specify a structural life-cycle model of consumption, labour supply and job mobility in an economy with search frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects.

This paper presents evidence on the social capital in one particular firm, as embodied in the friendship ties among its workers.

This report makes use of newly linked administrative data to better understand the determinants of participation in HE - and participation in high status universities - amongst those facing socio-economic disadvantage, those from poorly educated families and ethnic minorities.

This report examines how overall levels of public spending on education and schools in the UK have evolved in recent years, how the English school funding system allocates money to individual schools and the extent to which the school funding system is redistributive.

We study the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes.

This report assesses the impact of the EMA pilots on participation and attainment in post-compulsory education.

This paper estimates public sector wage differentials and their changes over time for men and women in the United Kingdom using panel data from the New Earnings Survey/Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings for the period 1975 to 2006.

This draft report makes use of newly linked administrative data to better understand the determinants of participation in HE - and participation in high status universities - amongst those facing socio-economic disadvantage, those from poorly educated families and ethnic minorities.

In this article some of the findings emerging from a research network investigating the socio-economic, biological and psychological circumstances that contribute to human capability and resilience over the life course are reported.

This report looks at why the youngest children in each academic year performing more poorly, on average, than the older members of their cohort and what, if anything, should be done in light of these disparities.

This report looks at why the youngest children in each academic year performing more poorly, on average, than the older members of their cohort and what, if anything, should be done in light of these disparities.