Early childhood development

This report looks at why the youngest children in each academic year performing more poorly, on average, than the older members of their cohort and what, if anything, should be done in light of these disparities.

This article undertakes a quantitative analysis of substantial reforms to the system of higher education finance in England, first announced in 2004 and revised in 2007.

There is a striking increase in inequality in children's home environments over the last 50 years (McLanahan, 2004). These are measured as differences in age of mothers of young children (below 5), maternal employment, single motherhood, divorce during the first 10 years of marriage, father's involvement, and family income, for mothers with different levels of education. This trend is cause for great concern because the home environment is probably the best candidate for explaining inequality in child development.

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

In this paper we look at the impact of resources on pupil outcomes by considering an English education policy initiative, Excellence in Cities.

In this paper, we analyse the consequences and determinants of cognitive and noncognitive (social) skills at age 11, using data for Great Britain from the National Child Development Survey (NCDS).

In this paper we study the impact of Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge using information contained in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) for individuals aged between 16 and 20.

This paper updates previous estimates of the impact of the programme on the GCSE marks and reported expected school leaving ages, among year 11 pupils.

Against a background of falling and low fertility, this paper presents an analysis of trends in fertility in the UK across cohorts born between 1935 and 1975.

This paper looks at the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes using data from Uruguay.

We examine the contribution of human capital to economy-wide technological improvements through the two channels of innovation and imitation.

This note is based on analysis prepared by IFS at the request of the House of Commons Education and Skills Select Committee, for their inquiry into Public Expenditure on Education and Skills being carried out during June and July 2006.

The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour.

In this paper we study the impact of misreported treatment status on the estimation of causal treatment effects.

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.

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

This is the fourth and final report of the longitudinal evaluation of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) pilots which followed two cohorts of young people who completed Year 11 in the summers of 1999 and 2000.

This paper provides weak conditions under which there is nonparametric interval identification of local features of a structural function that depends on a discrete endogenous variable and is nonseparable in latent variates.

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