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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
Lorraine Dearden, Emla Fitzsimons, Alissa Goodman and Greg Kaplan, March 2005,
Higher Education funding policy: who wins and who loses?,
IFS Reports
, C098
, 978-1-903274-41-5
Press release:
Lorraine Dearden, Emla Fitzsimons, Alissa Goodman and Greg Kaplan, March 2005,
Higher Education funding policy: who wins and who loses?,
IFS Press Releases
Orazio Attanasio, Erich Battistin, Emla Fitzsimons, Alice Mesnard and Marcos Vera-Hernandez, January 2005,
How effective are conditional cash transfers? Evidence from Colombia,
IFS Briefing Notes
, BN54
Lorraine Dearden, Emla Fitzsimons and Alissa Goodman, September 2004,
Conservatives' plans for Higher Education funding: who gains and who loses?,
IFS Press Releases
Emla Fitzsimons, September 2004,
Higher education funding,
Economic Review,
Vol. 22, No. 1,
Journal Articles
Emla Fitzsimons, April 2004,
The effects of risk on education in Indonesia,
IFS Working Papers
, EWP04/01
Now published:
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
Lorraine Dearden, Emla Fitzsimons and Alissa Goodman, April 2004,
Fine-tuning the HE reforms,
Mimeos
Erich Battistin, Lorraine Dearden, Carl Emmerson, Emla Fitzsimons, Costas Meghir, et al., January 2004,
The evaluation of Education Maintenance Allowance Pilots: Three Years' Evidence. A Quantitative Evaluation,
External publications
, Department for Education and Skills
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