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Lorraine is Director of the Education Sector at the IFS and is also Professor of Economics and Social Statistics at the Institute of Education, University London (IOE). Lorraine joined the IFS in 1992 as its first Ph.D. research scholar and became a full time member of the research staff in January 1995. She has studied at University College London, the London School of Economics and Australian National University. Her research focuses on the impact of education and training on labour market outcomes and company performance; evaluation of education and labour market policies; impact of month of birth on childhood and adult outcomes; income support for students; the evaluation of childcare, home learning environment and early years policies on children's and parents' outcomes; ethnic inequality and discrimination; the determinants of the demand for different types of schooling; wage determination and the labour market; higher education funding issues; intergenerational income and education mobility; and programme evaluation issues and methods. She is Director of the ESRC's National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), PEPA (Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis) NODE based at the IFS and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Economics of Education (CEE) which involves researchers from the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and the Institute of Education; and is. She is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and an IZA Fellow. 
All available publications
Lorraine Dearden, Javier Ferri and Costas Meghir, January 1998,
The effect of school quality on educational attainment and wages,
IFS Working Papers
, W98/03
Now published:
Lorraine Dearden, Javier Ferri and Costas Meghir, February 2002,
The effect of school quality on educational attainment and wages,
Review of Economics and Statistics,
Vol. 84, No. 1, pp. 1-20, Journal Articles
Lorraine Dearden, Stephen Machin, Howard Reed and David Wilkinson, May 1997,
Labour turnover and work-related training,
IFS Reports
, R53
, 978-1-873357-64-4
Richard Blundell, Lorraine Dearden, Alissa Goodman and Howard Reed, May 1997,
Higher education, employment and earnings in Britain,
IFS Reports
, R52
, 978-1-873357-67-5
Richard Blundell, Lorraine Dearden, Alissa Goodman and Howard Reed, January 1997,
The returns to higher education in Britain,
Conference Papers
Lorraine Dearden, Steve Machin, Howard Reed and Wilkinson, D, January 1997,
Labour turnover and work-related training,
Conference Papers
Howard Reed, Lorraine Dearden and Steve Machin, January 1997,
Intergenerational Mobility in Britain,
The Economic Journal,
vol. 107, pp. 47-66,
Journal Articles
Lorraine Dearden and Alexandra Heath, November 1996,
Income support and staying in school: what can we learn from Australia's AUSTUDY experiment?,
Fiscal Studies, Vol. 17, No. 4, November 1996,
Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 1-30,
Journal Articles
Richard Blundell, Lorraine Dearden and Costas Meghir, April 1996,
The determinants and effects of work-related training in Britain,
IFS Reports
, R50
, 978-1-873357-56-9
Lorraine Dearden, Steve Machin and Howard Reed, January 1996,
Intergenerational mobility in Britain,
Conference Papers
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