Facts and figures about UK taxes, benefits and public spending.
Income distribution, poverty and inequality.
Analysing government fiscal forecasts and tax and spending.
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Analysis of the fiscal choices an independent Scotland would face.
Case studies that give a flavour of the areas where IFS research has an impact on society.
Reforming the tax system for the 21st century.
A peer-reviewed quarterly journal publishing articles by academics and practitioners.
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Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions
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Date started: 26 April 2010
The Centre is a collaboration between researchers from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Institute of Education and the National Centre for Social Research. The Centre's work is funded by the Department for Education.
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This report discusses the strengths and limitations of several approaches to assessing the effect of education on productivity.
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This study examines the effect of a typical Anne Frank Scotland project on White-British 11 and 12 year olds.
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'It's not OK!' is a group of violence-prevention interventions which aim to change young people's attitudes towards key issues such as alcohol use, racism, homophobic violence, arson and other anti-social behaviour, abusive relationships and guns and gangs.
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This research report presents the findings from an evaluation of Key Stage 2 writing moderation.
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Despite increasing numbers of young people taking a gap year, there is little evidence on the characteristics of gap year takers, their motivations for taking a gap year,what they do whilst they are out of education and what effect this decision has on their longer-term outcomes. This report aims to fill these gaps, by providing quantitative evidence from two datasets on gap year takers in the UK.
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Talk About Alcohol is a set of peer-reviewed, evidence-based and piloted resources for teachers, parents and students which are provided free of charge with the aim of supporting alcohol education.
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This research report presents the findings from a study that investigated the extent of parental worklessness in families with young and teenage children, and determined how parental worklessness impacts on children’s cognitive ability, education attainment, behaviours, attitude to school, academic aspirations and experience of the transition from school to work.
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A group of brief, selective, personality-targeted interventions aimed at reducing substance (alcohol and drugs) use and misuse.
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The SHAHRP programme is a classroom-based drug education project with a primary focus to minimize alcohol related 'harm' by empowering students to identify and deal with risks and harms associated with alcohol use
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The 'Good Behaviour Game' is a classroom-based management strategy used by teachers to socialise young school-age children and reduce aggressive and disruptive behaviours
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The strengthening families programme 10-14 (UK) is an intervention which aims to improve the 'family competency' of young people and their parents, as well as reduce the risk factors associated with substance use and other problem behaviours.
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EU-DAP is a school-based project designed to prevent adolescents’ misuse of legal and illegal substances
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Breaking Barriers was a Community Cohesion project that operated from 2007-2010 on a pan-London basis led by the Active Communities Network (ACN)
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The Örebro Prevention program is a universal prevention program designed to decrease underage drunkenness. It has now evolved and is called Effekt.
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The Certificate of Personal Effectiveness (CoPE) is a set of qualifications (Level 1,2 and 3) developed by ASDAN Education.
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Empowering Young People Pilots was an initiative to make funds available so that the most disadvantaged young people could access positive activities. It was part of the ten year strategy for positive youth activities launched in 2007.
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The Youth Opportunity Fund and the Youth Capital Fund were established in 2006 with the aim of funding positive activities for young people across all local authorities.
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This report presents the findings of a survey of local authorities, examining preparations for Raising the Participation Age, conducted by NatCen Social Research on behalf of the Department for Education.
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A 'chalk and talk' presentation for the Social Market Foundation 31st May 2012
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Welcome to the second edition of the CAYT digest.
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A DfE research brief from the Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions (CAYT).
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In the context of a difficult 2011 labour market, this report examines the early educational and labour market transitions made by young people.
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This report explores what types of firm engage with the apprenticeship programme and if there are characteristics that make them more or less likely to offer apprenticeships.
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This study investigated the hypothesis that offering vocational options in Year 10 can help improve levels of educational engagement and subsequent outcomes among young people disengaged from education.
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The analyses summarised here explore the educational outcomes of disengaged young people from a nationally representative cohort who reported taking vocational courses in Year 10 compared to similarly disengaged young people who did not.
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CAYT researchers presented evidence on the link between young people's education and labour market choices and economic growth.
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Four distinct pieces of analysis to help us better understand young people's early interactions with the labour market.
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This review is aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding of the key characteristics of what works in terms of early interventions to prevent or reduce youth crime or anti-social behaviour.
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In this paper we examine the associations between gender, family background, general cognitive ability (g), teenage career aspirations, and career attainment in mid adulthood drawing on two large representative samples of the British population born in 1958
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This paper reviews the literature on social monility in the light of possible policies for intervention.
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This report looks at the costs and benefits associated with young people's drug and alcohol treatment.
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Welcome to the first edition of the CYT digest.
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The results from this study provide robust evidence on the characteristics of bullying victims based on a representative cohort of young people aged 14 to 16 attending secondary schools in England between 2004 and 2006.
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The aim of this study was to assess the longitudinal trajectory linking childhood receptive language skills to psychosocial outcomes in later life.
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This study is designed to clarify young people's drinking patterns, with particular emphasis on chains of behaviour that may lead to negative outcomes.
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This paper examines the association between general cognitive ability directly measured at age 10/11, and adult academic attainment in three British birth cohorts born in 1946, 1958, and 1970, controlling for family socio-economic background and gender.
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This paper explores the role of individual experiences and school characteristics in determining changes in disengagement between the age of 14 and 16.
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This paper makes use of newly linked administrative data to better understand the determinants of higher education participation amongst individuals from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
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This paper examines changing educational expectations in three British age cohorts born in 1958, 1970 and 1989/90.
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We examined the prospective associations between family socio-economic background, childhood intelligence (g) at age 11, educational and occupational attainment, and social attitudes at age 33 in a large (N=8804), representative sample of the British population born in 1958.
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This study uses an analytical approach that enables the capturing of different kinds of disengagement, creating a typology of engaged / disengaged young people.
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This study examined why young people from poor families have lower attainment in school, are more likely to become NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) after compulsory education, and are more likely to participate in a range of risky behaviours whilst teenagers.
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This paper examines antecedents and outcomes of educational and occupational aspirations of young men and women, covering the transition from dependent childhood into independent adulthood.
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IFS research influential in shaping the Department for Education’s appraisal of policies designed to improve educational attainment and boost growth.
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