Education and skills

This paper provides weak conditions under which there is nonparametric interval identification of local features of a structural function that depends on a discrete endogenous variable and is nonseparable in latent variates.

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

This paper is concerned with the relationship between class size and the student outcome - participation in post-compulsory schooling.

This paper looks at the impact of Opportunity Bursaries on young adults who received payments in 2001-02 and 2002-03.

This paper looks at the impact of the Aimhigher:Excellence Challenge programme on pupils who have been exposed to it for one year.

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

This paper uses a variety of methods to examine the impact of educational attainment of future earnings. Compared with stopping education at 16 years of age with no qualifications, we find that acquiring O-levels (GCSEs) increases earnings by 18%, A-levels increases earnings by 24% and going to higher education increases earnings by 48%.

This paper evaluates whether means-tested grants paid to secondary students are an effective way of reducing the proportion of school dropouts.

This survey covers recent solutions to aggregation problems in three application areas, consumer demand analysis, consumption growth and wealth, and labor participation and wages.

This Election Briefing Note compares Labour's proposed reforms to the system of higher education (HE) finance in England and the alternative proposals outlined by the Conservative Party in September 20042 and the Liberal Democrats in January and March 2005.

In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.

We look at the effects of the reforms introduced since 1997 and at the proposals of the parties in this area.

In this report we estimate the impact on school enrolment of a large welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Acción.

This commentary compares the university funding of Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. These policies have important implications for students, graduates, universities and taxpayers.

In this paper we evaluate the impact of a major school reform, that took place in the 1950s in Sweden, on educational attainment and earnings.

This paper addresses the intergeneration transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age.