Education and skills

This article undertakes a quantitative analysis of substantial reforms to the system of higher education finance in England, first announced in 2004 and revised in 2007.

There is a striking increase in inequality in children's home environments over the last 50 years (McLanahan, 2004). These are measured as differences in age of mothers of young children (below 5), maternal employment, single motherhood, divorce during the first 10 years of marriage, father's involvement, and family income, for mothers with different levels of education. This trend is cause for great concern because the home environment is probably the best candidate for explaining inequality in child development.

We examine the specific role of educational and personal assets and family resources in supporting young people from socially disadvantaged family backgrounds to stay on in school beyond the mandatory school leaving age.

An Edepo working paper.

This paper has been written as a review of the current tax treatment of the family in the UK.

We provide evidence on the impact of a large-scale construction of pre-primary school facilities in Argentina.

This paper examines the role of individual agency in shaping educational and occupational transitions as well as the assumption of family-related roles in times of social change.

This paper intends to address individual as well as family and school related influences on uptake of science, engineering, technology and health related careers.

This paper uses within-firm, plant-level data combined with geographic information on firms' overseas operations to examine how investment in low-wage economies affects firms' home-country operations.

This paper examines changes in the distribution of wages using bounds to allow for the impact of nonrandom selection into work.

In this paper we look at the impact of resources on pupil outcomes by considering an English education policy initiative, Excellence in Cities.

This paper examines antecedents and outcomes of educational and occupational aspirations of young men and women, covering the transition from dependent childhood into independent adulthood.

This paper intends to address individual as well as family and school related influences on uptake of science, engineering, technology and health related careers.

In this paper, we analyse the consequences and determinants of cognitive and noncognitive (social) skills at age 11, using data for Great Britain from the National Child Development Survey (NCDS).

This paper decomposes the sources of risk to income that individuals face over their lifetimes.

In this paper we study the impact of Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge using information contained in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) for individuals aged between 16 and 20.