Sarah is an Associate Director in the Education and Skills sector. She joined the IFS in 2012 after completing her PhD in Economics at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the origins of inequality within and across generations. Her current projects look at the determinants of early childhood development, the drivers of intergenerational mobility, and the impact of COVID-19 on families' time-use and child development. Sarah is also a Research Fellow at IZA Bonn and of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO). She also served as a teaching fellow at the University College London.
Education
PhD Economics, University College London, 2012
MA Economics, University of Chicago, 2007
BA (Magna cum Laude) Economics and Political Science, Columbia University, 2005
Inequalities between children in these domains open up very early in life. At this online event we will discuss a number of questions. How large is the variation in early child development and in the environments that young children are raised in? What are the most important features of children’s early environment for their development?
The environment that children are raised in, and their development of cognitive, and social and emotional skills affect the subsequent trajectory of their lives. Inequalities between children in these domains open up very early in life.
Through the lottery of birth, children are born into different socio-economic circumstances and grow up in environments that are remarkably different from each other. This report looks at inequalities in early childhood in the UK.
