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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: 232 publications
01 January 1995
W95/12
Harmon, C and Ian Walker
This paper estimates the impact of schooling on the wages of men.
01 January 1995
W95/20
Lorraine Dearden, Steve Machin and Howard Reed
In this paper we examine the concept of intergenerational mobility in earnings and in lifetime or 'permanent' status, and discuss its measurement using regression and quantile transition matrix approaches.
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We analysed the impact of the 2006 HE funding reforms and informed the surrounding debate.
We provided evidence to the Browne Review of higher education funding about the impact of a number of higher education finance reforms.
An IFS assessment of the effectiveness of the Education Maintenance Allowance informed the Government’s decision to extend the policy nationwide in 2004.
IFS research increased awareness of the disadvantages faced by children born at the end of the academic year.
We provided a rigorous assessment of the rationale for a pupil premium and analysis of how it would affect school finances.
IFS was instrumental in creating data that is helping policymakers understand the barriers to attending university faced by poor children.