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Centre for Early Years and Education Research

Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Date started: 01 October 2004

The Centre for Early Years and Education Research is a focal point for work at IFS about policies aimed at improving the education and life chances of children from an early age.

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01 November 2008

Journal Articles

The effect of pre-primary education on primary school performance

In this paper, we contribute to the empirical case for universal pre-primary education.

02 June 2008

Journal Articles

Giving children a better start: preschool attendance and school-age profiles

We study the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes.

01 June 2007

Journal Articles

The effect of a large expansion of pre-primary school facilities on preschool attendance and maternal employment

We provide evidence on the impact of a large-scale construction of pre-primary school facilities in Argentina.

18 April 2006

IFS Press Releases

Increasing mothers' education benefits their children's school performance

A new study by Pedro Carneiro, Costas Meghir and Matthias Parey has investigated how a mother's education affects her children's school performance.

22 March 2006

IFS Working Papers

The effect of pre-primary education on primary school performance

Although the theoretical case for universal pre-primary education is strong, the empirical foundation is weak. In this paper, we contribute to the empirical case by investigating the effect of a large expansion of universal pre-primary education on subsequent primary school performance in Argentina.

08 March 2006

IFS Press Releases

Ethnic differences in birth outcomes in England

A new paper published today in Fiscal Studies, studies the differences in birth outcomes between different ethnic groups.

08 March 2006

Journal Articles

Ethnic differences in birth outcomes in England

This paper uses the Millennium Cohort Study to look at ethnic differences in birth outcomes for a cohort of English children born in 2000 and 2001.

01 August 2005

Mimeos

The effects of school resources on participation in post-compulsory education in Denmark

This paper is concerned with the relationship between class size and the student outcome - participation in post-compulsory schooling.

01 August 2005

Mimeos

How important is income in determining children's outcomes? A methodology review of econometric approaches

This document reviews a number of empirical methodologies available to answering policy questions about the relationship between income and child outcomes.

01 July 2005

Mimeos

Early education and children's outcomes: how long do the impacts last?

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.

01 April 2005

Mimeos

Ethnic differences in birth outcomes in England

In this paper we use the new Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) to look at ethnic differences in outcomes of children at birth.

04 March 2005

Mimeos

Parental income and child outcomes: what can we learn from material deprivation?

This note sets out what we learn about the relationship between family income and material deprivation from a panel of lone parents constructed from 5 waves of the Family and Children Survey (FACS).

28 February 2005

Mimeos

Who benefits from Child Benefit?

This paper is concerned with the extent to which household expenditure patterns are affected by Child Benefit.

11 February 2005

IFS Working Papers

The impact of parental income and education on the schooling of their children

This paper addresses the intergeneration transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age.

01 December 2004

External publications

An in-depth analysis of the returns to National Vocational Qualifications obtained at Level 2

In this paper, we offer an in-dept investigation of NVQ qualifications, trying to shed some light as to why a seemingly beneficial certification of skill appears to hurt labour market prospects.

01 December 2004

External publications

The role of credit constraints in educational choices: evidence from the NCDS and BCS70

In this analysis we seek to shed light on the extent to which credit constraints may affect individuals choices to stay in full-time education past the age of 16 and to complete higher education (HE) qualifications in the United Kingdom, and on how this has varied between individuals born in 1958 and in 1970.

01 December 2004

External publications

Returns to education for the 'marginal learner' evidence from the BCS70

In this paper, we focus on two key educational choices and estimate the corresponding individual wage returns for variously defined marginal learners.

28 November 2004

IFS Working Papers

The effect of a large expansion of pre-primary school facilities on preschool attendance and maternal employment

We provide evidence on the impact of a large construction of pre-primary school facilities in Argentina.

10 August 2004

IFS Working Papers

Understanding the effects of early motherhood in Britain: the effects on mothers

This paper examines the socio-economic consequences of teenage motherhood for a cohort of British women born in 1970.

01 July 2004

External publications

National evaluation of the wraparound care project

This study was commissioned by the Department for Education

01 November 2003

IFS Working Papers

Evaluating the impact of education on earnings in the UK: Models, methods and results from the NCDS

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

25 September 2003

External publications

Education Maintenance Allowance Transport Pilots - Quantitative Findings from Year 1 and 2 (2000-2001/2001-2002)

This report contains a summary of quantitative evidence from an evaluation of the Education

03 July 2002

External publications

Education Maintenance Allowance: The First Two Years. A Quantitative Evaluation

The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) has commissioned a longitudinal evaluation

02 March 2001

External publications

Education Maintenance Allowance: The First Year - A Quantitative Evaluation

This evaluation focuses on the four models of EMA that were introduced into the

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Higher Education Funding Policy - Who wins and who loses?

Samuel Berlinski

Richard Blundell

Mike Brewer

Pedro Carneiro

Claire Crawford

Lorraine Dearden

Alissa Goodman

Greg Kaplan

Costas Meghir

Alice Mesnard

Jonathan Shaw

Barbara Sianesi

George Smith

Teresa Smith

Kathy Sylva

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