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Emla Fitzsimons
Senior research economist
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Education
2004 PhD in Economics, University College London, 'Essays on Education and Work Choices in Developing and Developed Economies'.
1997 Higher Diploma in Education, University College Dublin.
1996 Master of Arts in Economics, University College Dublin.
1995 Bachelor of Actuarial and Financial Studies, University College Dublin.

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.

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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
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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
Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons, Marcos Vera-Hernandez, et al., March 2004,  Evaluación del Programa Familias en Acción - Subsidios Condicionados de la Red de Apoyo Social. Informe de la Linea de Base (Ajustado),  IFS Reports
Emla Fitzsimons, February 2004,  Funding Higher Education,  Public Economics Lectures
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
Lorraine Dearden, Emla Fitzsimons and Alissa Goodman, January 2004,  An analysis of the higher education reforms,  IFS Briefing Notes , BN45
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January 2004,  Higher education finance bill,  IFS Press Releases
Emla Fitzsimons, March 2002,  The effects of risk on education in Indonesia,  IFS Working Papers , W02/07
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Programme evaluation for policy analysis
Joint versus Individual liability in Mongolian microfinance
Testing the quantity-quality model in Mexico
How are children affected when the father leaves for good? Evidence from school and work choices in Colombia
Early child development pilot in Colombia
Effects of reproductive health on poverty in Malawi
The effects of risk and shocks on education and child labour: evidence from Colombia
An investigation of stated-response data: withdrawing a subsidy
Intra-household education choices in Colombia: a structural framework
The effects of shocks on education and child labour: evidence from Colombia
School supply and the effectiveness of conditional cash transfers
Human development and poverty reduction in developing countries
Higher education funding policies and the lifetime returns to higher education
Analysis of Higher Education reforms
Evaluation of the Employer Training Pilots
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) evaluation
The effects of risk and uncertainty on education in Indonesia
Evaluation of Familias en Acción
Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies