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Emla Fitzsimons
Senior research economist
Education
2004 PhD in Economics, University College London, 'Essays on Education and Work Choices in Developing and Developed Economies'.
1997 Higher Diploma in Education, University College Dublin.
1996 Master of Arts in Economics, University College Dublin.
1995 Bachelor of Actuarial and Financial Studies, University College Dublin.

Emla is a senior research economist at the Institute, working mainly in the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies, as well as in the education, employment and evaluation research sector. She works on a variety of issues including children's schooling decisions, microfinance and poverty, reproductive health and poverty, early cognitive development, and the funding of higher education in the UK.

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Lorraine Dearden, Emla Fitzsimons and Gill Wyness, September 2011,  The Impact of Tuition Fees and Support on University IFS Working Papers , W11/17
Laura Abramovsky, Erich Battistin, Emla Fitzsimons, Alissa Goodman and Helen Simpson, January 2011,  Providing employers with incentives to train low-skilled workers: evidence from the U.K. employer training pilots Journal of Labour Economics,  Vol. 29 (1), Journal Articles
Emla Fitzsimons and Bansi Malde, September 2010,  Empirically probing the quantity-quality model IFS Working Papers , W10/20
Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons, Ana Gomez, Martha Isabel Gutiérrez, Costas Meghir and Alice Mesnard, January 2010,  Children's schooling and work in the presence of a conditional cash transfer programme in rural Colombia Economic Development and Cultural Change,  Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 181-210, University of Chicago Press, Journal Articles
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Emla Fitzsimons, October 2007,  The effects of risk on education in Indonesia Economic development and cultural change,  Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 1-25, Journal Articles
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Emla Fitzsimons, April 2004,  The effects of risk on education in Indonesia,  IFS Working Papers , EWP04/01
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