Ellen Greaves

This appendix accompanies IFS Briefing Note 122.

The aim of this report is to identify the effect of month of birth on a range of key skills and behaviours amongst young people growing up in England today.

This article focuses on the constraints on parental choice of school caused by geographical location.

Children born to married parents achieve better cognitive and social outcomes, on average. This report asks why this is so.

This is the full report of the independent evaluation of the ECaR programme.

In this Briefing Note, we critically appraise the government's assertion that cohabiting couples are more likley to seperate than married couples.

This Election Briefing Note, drawing in part on past notes in this series, analyses the manifesto proposals of the three main political parties in the area of families with children.

This Commentary documents in some detail how children's cognitive and social development differs between married and cohabiting parents, and provides a preliminary assessment of the extent to which such differences might be due to a causal effect of marriage itself.

IFS researchers assess the rationale for a pupil premium and offer an empirical analysis of how such a scheme might operate in practice and affect school finances.

Parental demand for academic performance is a key element in the view that strengthening school choice will drive up school performance. In this paper we analyse what parents look for in choosing schools.

We assess whether ethnic minority pupils are subject to low teacher expectations.