Early childhood development

This paper looks at evidence as to whether expanding preschool education provides work incentives for mothers.

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

This paper investigates the puzzling evidence on wages and educational attainment observed in Brazil in the 1990s.

This report makes use of newly linked administrative data to better understand the determinants of participation in HE - and participation in high status universities - amongst those facing socio-economic disadvantage, those from poorly educated families and ethnic minorities.

This report examines how overall levels of public spending on education and schools in the UK have evolved in recent years, how the English school funding system allocates money to individual schools and the extent to which the school funding system is redistributive.

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

This report assesses the impact of the EMA pilots on participation and attainment in post-compulsory education.

This draft report makes use of newly linked administrative data to better understand the determinants of participation in HE - and participation in high status universities - amongst those facing socio-economic disadvantage, those from poorly educated families and ethnic minorities.

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.