Education and skills

This paper updates previous estimates of the impact of the programme on the GCSE marks and reported expected school leaving ages, among year 11 pupils.

Against a background of falling and low fertility, this paper presents an analysis of trends in fertility in the UK across cohorts born between 1935 and 1975.

This article looks at the Government's agenda of parental choice and school competition.

This paper looks at the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes using data from Uruguay.

We examine the contribution of human capital to economy-wide technological improvements through the two channels of innovation and imitation.

We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of training choice, employment and wage growth, allowing for job mobility, in a world where wages depend on firm-worker matches, as well as experience and tenure and jobs take time to locate.

This paper examines the effects of work-related training on direct measures of productivity.

This note is based on analysis prepared by IFS at the request of the House of Commons Education and Skills Select Committee, for their inquiry into Public Expenditure on Education and Skills being carried out during June and July 2006.

The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour.

In this paper we study the impact of misreported treatment status on the estimation of causal treatment effects.

This paper provides the first estimates of the effects of handedness on hourly earnings.

Although the theoretical case for universal pre-primary education is strong, the empirical foundation is weak. In this paper, we contribute to the empirical case by investigating the effect of a large expansion of universal pre-primary education on subsequent primary school performance in Argentina.

This report presents the findings of research into how and when differences in work behaviour between men and women develop, focusing on the evolution of the gender gaps immediately after childbirth and during the initial years of family development.

This report presents the final stage of the Employer Training Pilots impact study.

In this paper we estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training.

We evaluate the effects of undergoing any early education (before the compulsory starting age of 5) and of pre-school on a cohort of British children born in 1958.

In this paper we examine the importance of heterogeneity and self-selection into schooling for the study of inequality.

This is the fourth and final report of the longitudinal evaluation of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) pilots which followed two cohorts of young people who completed Year 11 in the summers of 1999 and 2000.