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Education and training
Our research considers the determinants and effectiveness of educational investments across the lifecycle, from early childcare and pre-school education, through to primary and secondary schools, post-compulsory schooling, higher education and adult learning.

Our overarching aim is to understand the relative effectiveness of different policy interventions aimed at promoting human capital investment. To this end, we have a wide range of research and policy evaluation projects underway.

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Year: 199 publications
01 October 1999
W99/10
Costas Meghir and Mårten Palme
The impact of compulsory schooling laws as well as the abolition of early selection by ability remain important issues in the educational debate.
01 July 1999
W99/07
Lorraine Dearden
The paper estimates the returns to education for a cohort of individuals born in
01 March 1999
This paper provides a non-technical review of the evidence on the returns to education and training for the individual, the firm and the economy at large
01 March 1999
This paper provides a non-technical review of the evidence on the returns to education and training for the individual, the firm and the economy at large
01 January 1999
W99/01
Christian Dustmann and Costas Meghir
This paper develops and estimates a human capital model of wage growth based on learning by doing.
01 July 1998
W98/14
The paper estimates the returns to education for a cohort of individuals born in Britain in March 1958 who have been followed since birth until
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