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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.
All available publications
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,
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
Previous versions:
Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons, Ana Gomez, Martha Isabel Gutiérrez, Costas Meghir and Alice Mesnard, July 2006,
Child education and work choices in the presence of a conditional cash transfer programme in rural Colombia,
IFS Working Papers
, W06/13
Emla Fitzsimons and Marta Rubio Codina, October 2009,
Early childhood development: home visiting and nutrition,
Presentations
Emla Fitzsimons and Alice Mesnard, November 2008,
Are boys and girls affected differently when the household head leaves for good? Evidence from school and work choices in Colombia,
IFS Working Papers
, W08/11
Lorraine Dearden, Emla Fitzsimons, Alissa Goodman and Greg Kaplan, October 2007,
Higher education funding reforms in England: the distributional effects and the shifting balance of costs,
IFS Working Papers
, W07/18
Now published:
Lorraine Dearden, Emla Fitzsimons, Alissa Goodman and Greg Kaplan, October 2007,
Higher education funding reforms in England: the distributional effects and the shifting balance of costs,
Economic Journal Features,
Vol. 118, No. 526, pp. F110-F125, Journal Articles
Lorraine Dearden, Emla Fitzsimons, Alissa Goodman and Greg Kaplan, October 2007,
Higher education funding reforms in England: the distributional effects and the shifting balance of costs,
Economic Journal Features,
Vol. 118, No. 526, pp. F110-F125,
Journal Articles
Previous versions:
Lorraine Dearden, Emla Fitzsimons, Alissa Goodman and Greg Kaplan, October 2007,
Higher education funding reforms in England: the distributional effects and the shifting balance of costs,
IFS Working Papers
, W07/18
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
Previous versions:
Emla Fitzsimons, April 2004,
The effects of risk on education in Indonesia,
IFS Working Papers
, EWP04/01
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