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Lorraine is a Research Fellow in the Education, Employment and Evaluation 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; and intergenerational income and education mobility. She is Deputy Director of the DCSF-sponsored 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 Director of the ESRC's National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), ADMIN (Administrative Data: Methods Inference and Network) NODE based at the IOE. She is an elected member of the Royal Economic Society's Committee for Women in Economics and an IZA Fellow.
All available publications
Lorraine Dearden, Luke Sibieta and Kathy Sylva, March 2011,
The socio-economic gradient in early child outcomes: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study,
IFS Working Papers
, W11/03
Lorraine Dearden, Luke Sibieta and Kathy Sylva, February 2011,
The socio-economic gradient in early child outcomes: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study,
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies,
Vol. 2, No. 1, pp 19-40,
Journal Articles
Haroon Chowdry, Lorraine Dearden and Gill Wyness, December 2010,
Higher education reforms: progressive but complicated with an unwelcome incentive,
IFS Briefing Notes
, BN113
Lorraine Dearden, Haroon Chowdry and Gill Wyness, November 2010,
Government proposals for higher education would squeeze high earners less and cost the taxpayer more,
Observations
Haroon Chowdry, Lorraine Dearden and Gill Wyness, November 2010,
Higher education reforms: progressive but too complicated,
Observations
Haroon Chowdry, JA Swift, Sokbae 'Simon' Lee and Lorraine Dearden, October 2010,
A progressive graduate tax after all?,
Observations
Haroon Chowdry and Lorraine Dearden, October 2010,
Graduates and universities share burden of Browne recommendations,
IFS Press Releases
Lorraine Dearden, Chris Ryan and Luke Sibieta, September 2010,
What determines private school choice? a comparison between the UK and Australia,
IFS Working Papers
, W10/22
Richard Blundell, Lorraine Dearden and Luke Sibieta, September 2010,
The demand for private schooling in England: the impact of price and quality,
IFS Working Papers
, W10/21
Lorraine Dearden, September 2010,
Administrative Data and Economic Policy Evaluation,
The Economic Record,
Vol. 86, S1, pp. 18-21,
Wiley,
Journal Articles
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