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Families and children
Research in this area covers several topics: childcare provision and mothers' behaviour in the labour market; child development and returns to education; and support for families with children through the benefit system.

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Year: 161 publications
30 January 2012
Welcome to the second edition of the CAYT digest.
25 January 2012
This presentation was given at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion on 25 January 2012.
04 January 2012
This report examines the prospects for poverty rates and income for different family types up to the year 2015.
11 October 2011
A new forecast of income poverty among children and working-age adults in the UK has been published today by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
19 July 2011
New research published today by researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, finds little or no evidence that marriage itself has any effect on children's social or cognitive development.
19 July 2011
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Children born to married parents achieve better cognitive and social outcomes, on average. This report asks why this is so.
31 May 2011
Andy Ross, Kathryn Duckworth, David J. Smith, Gill Wyness and Ingrid Schoon
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.
31 May 2011
Claire Crawford, Kathryn Duckworth, Charley Greenwood, Andy Ross, Anna Vignoles and Gill Wyness
Four distinct pieces of analysis to help us better understand young people's early interactions with the labour market.
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IFS researchers have shown that whether parents are married has little or no impact on children’s emotional and educational development.
IFS develops data on food prices and nutrition to build capacity for policy-relevant social science research.
In a tough economic climate IFS looks at how households are able to cope.