This paper looks at the impact of Opportunity Bursaries on young adults who received payments in 2001-02 and 2002-03.

We evaluate the effects of undergoing any early schooling (before the compulsory starting age of 5) and of pre-school on a cohort of British children born in 1958.

Regression, matching, control function and instrumental variables methods for recovering the effect of education on individual earnings are reviewed for single treatments and sequential multiple treatments with and without heterogeneous returns.

This paper evaluates whether means-tested grants paid to secondary students are an effective way of reducing the proportion of school dropouts.

This paper evaluates whether means-tested grants paid to secondary students are an effective way of reducing the proportion of school dropouts.

The chapter on “The economic evaluation of education initiatives” considers issues related to the economic evaluation of government interventions in the education system, followed by a discussion of recent evidence of the Education Maintenance Allowance and Excellence in Cities initiatives.

This chapter explores the question of how the quantification of the individual wage gain from education does – or could – feed into policy, and in particular the contribution it can give to the issue of underinvestment in education.

This Election Briefing Note compares Labour's proposed reforms to the system of higher education (HE) finance in England and the alternative proposals outlined by the Conservative Party in September 20042 and the Liberal Democrats in January and March 2005.

In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.

We look at the effects of the reforms introduced since 1997 and at the proposals of the parties in this area.