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Emla Fitzsimons is Co-Director of the Centre for Evaluation of Development Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (EDePo@IFS). Her research is based around human capital investment decisions in relation to children. Her research on the period of early childhood includes the implementation and evaluation of a programme in Colombia which is targeted at children aged one to three and a half years and based around weekly home visits. For the UK, she is currently conducting research into the effects of breastfeeding on children’s cognitive and non-cognitive development up to the age of seven. These projects also contain a strong health and nutrition focus and other work around this theme evaluates the impacts of a reproductive health programme in Malawi on children’s nutrition. This work also considers wider economic effects such as on household labour supply and household risk sharing arrangements. Emla’s work on children’s schooling includes an evaluation of the Colombian conditional cash transfer programme Familias en Acción on schooling and work and the role of the programme as a safety net in the event of departure of father figure from the household. 
All available publications
Marcos Vera-Hernandez, Bansi Malde, Emla Fitzsimons and Alice Mesnard, August 2012,
MaiMwana - IFS Economic Survey ,
Datasets
Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons, Camila Fernandez, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Costas Meghir and Marta Rubio Codina, June 2012,
Home Visiting in Colombia:
Impacts of a Scalable Intervention,
Presentations
Britta Augsburg, Orazio Attanasio, Ralph de Haas, Heike Harmgart and Emla Fitzsimons, May 2012,
Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from Mongolia,
External publications
, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Costas Meghir and Marta Rubio Codina, April 2012,
Early childhood stimulation, nutrition and development: a randomised control trial,
Mimeos
Emla Fitzsimons, Bansi Malde, Alice Mesnard and Marcos Vera-Hernandez, April 2012,
Household responses to information on child nutrition:
experimental evidence from Malawi,
IFS Working Papers
, W12/07 , Revised December 2012
Emla Fitzsimons, Bansi Malde, Alice Mesnard and Marcos Vera-Hernandez, March 2012,
Household responses to information on child nutrition: experimental evidence from Malawi,
Presentations
Emla Fitzsimons and Alice Mesnard, March 2012,
How children's schooling and work are affected when their father leaves permanently: evidence from Colombia,
IFS Working Papers
, W12/04
Emla Fitzsimons, Dan Rogger and George Stoye, February 2012,
UK development aid,
in The IFS Green Budget: February 2012
Book Chapters
Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg, Ralph de Haas, Emla Fitzsimons and Heike Harmgart, December 2011,
Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia,
IFS Working Papers
, W11/20
Lorraine Dearden, Emla Fitzsimons and Gill Wyness, September 2011,
The impact of tuition fees and support on university participation in the UK,
IFS Working Papers
, W11/17
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