Education and skills

The Education Maintenance Allowance: Third Year Report

Forthcoming

This commentary describes the changes to the structure of child-contingent support through the tax and benefit system since 1975. It also presents new results, which were produced to quantify explicitly the amount of government support for families with children, using representative samples of families from over the past three decades. With these data, it is possible to examine whether child-contingent support has become more or less progressive, or more or less slanted towards large families, lone-parents families or families with young children.

We construct and estimate an equilibrium search model with on-the-job-search.

This paper analyses levels of low literacy across 12 countries by using the International Adult Literacy Survey.

This paper examines the family incomecollege enrolment relationship and the evidence on credit constraints in postsecondary schooling.

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

This IFS book (March 2002) reveals that mothers still face substantial hurdles in undertaking paid employment. For those who do manage to work, childcare arrangements are a diverse mixture of carers, cost and quality. Government initiatives to increase the availability of childcare places have a substantial shortfall to address while measures to increase the

We offer an extensive summary and a critical discussion of the empirical literature on the impact of human capital on macro- economic performance, with a particular focus on UK policy.

The paper examines the effects of pupil-teacher ratios and type of school on educational attainment and wages using the British National Child Development Survey (NCDS). The NCDS is a panel survey that follows a cohort of individuals born in March 1958 and has a rich set of background variables recorded throughout the individuals' lives.

Market failure can affect the choices that individuals make about education. Christine Frayne, of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, looks at the economic arguments.

Over the last two decades, the wage gap between men and women has narrowed, yet a sizeable discrepancy in earnings capacity remains between seemingly identical male and female workers.

Childcare subsidies are typically advocated as a means to making paid employment profitable for mothers, but also have important ramifications for the use and quality of paid childcare. Even if one is concerned primarily with the quantity aspect, the quality dimension cannot be ignored. This paper provides an exposition of the potential biases in estimates of price elasticities with respect to quantity that do not allow for quality variation or for the possibility of non-linear pricing structures.

In this paper we study the sources of wage growth.

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