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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
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
Emla Fitzsimons, David Phillips and Marcos Vera-Hernandez, August 2007,
What would you do? An investigation of stated-response data,
IFS Working Papers
, EWP07/01
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