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Education and skills

Our work on Education and Skills aims to understand what matters for the healthy development of children, from infancy to young adulthood. It tracks education spending in various stages of education and assesses the effectiveness of government policies at improving children’s outcomes and inequalities therein.

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Scottish Budget 2023–24: further analysis

Report

The aim of this report is to look at some of the key implications of the Scottish Budget for the coming year, and for the longer term.

17 February 2023

Haste makes no waste: positive peer effects of classroom speed competition on learning

Journal article

This study investigates the effects of speed competition in classrooms on young pupils' learning outcomes.

16 February 2023

Council and school funding

Report

After health, funding for Scottish councils is the second largest item in the Scottish Government’s Budget.

3 February 2023

Can higher education policy boost intergenerational mobility? Evidence from an empirical matching model

Working Paper

We use rich administrative data to estimate a novel two-sided matching model of sorting into field and institution within higher education.

26 January 2023

Pandemics, recessions and mental health: young people and jobs in 2023

Podcast

We look at the future for young people in the jobs market and how they were affected by the pandemic.

25 January 2023

What has happened to teacher pay in England?

Comment

Most teachers are likely to see a 5% real-terms fall in salaries this school year. This comes on top of past real-terms falls dating back to 2010.

11 January 2023

Job ladder, human capital, and the cost of job loss

Working Paper

We propose a structural model of the labour market with heterogeneous firms, on-the-job search and accumulation of specific and general human capital.

13 December 2022

Annual report on education spending in England: 2022

Report

This is our fifth annual report on education spending funded by the Nuffield Foundation

12 December 2022

Education spending: the right priorities?

Presentation

This event launched the 2022 IFS Annual Report on Education Spending, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.

12 December 2022

Parental investments and intra-household inequality in child human capital: evidence from a survey experiment

Working Paper

This paper studies the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain intra-household inequality and its determinants.

7 December 2022

Shaping gender-stereotypical beliefs: the role of parents and peers

Working Paper

We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to explore the influence of parents and peers in shaping adolescents’ beliefs on gender-stereotypical fields.

2 December 2022

Cost-of-living crisis to hit students harder than expected

Comment

Students will be hit harder by the cost-of-living crisis than previously thought. Poorest students will be more than £1,000 worse off than in 2020–21.

30 November 2022