The effects of EMA and NMW on young people's education and employment choices

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If you can’t see it, you can’t be it: role models influence female junior doctors’ choice of medical specialty

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Working alongside a greater share of senior women specialists during an early-career placement influences junior women’s own specialty choice.

24 April 2024

Sure Start achieved its aims, then we threw it away

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"We know that poor children grow up with poor life chances. We know how to ameliorate that. The choice is ours." Paul Johnson writes for the Times.

15 April 2024

The £600 billion problem awaiting the next government

podcast

We speak to David Gauke and Giles Wilkes, two experts who have been at the heart of the spending review process.

25 April 2024

Policy analysis

Recent trends in and the outlook for health-related benefits

report

Recipients of and spending on health-related benefits have risen rapidly since the start of the pandemic, posing a serious challenge for policymakers.

19 April 2024

4.2 million working-age people now claiming health-related benefits, could rise by 30% by the end of the decade

press release

Our new report sheds more light on forecasts for a substantial increase in the number of people claiming health-related benefits in coming years.

19 April 2024

Progression of nurses within the NHS

report

This report examines the career progression of NHS nurses, how this compares with that of other NHS staff groups and how this has changed over time.

12 April 2024

Academic research

Higher Education Access and Funding: challenges and policy options

conference 14 May 2024 at 11:00

This one-day academic conference looked at access to and funding of Higher Education systems.

Forced displacement, mental health, and child development: Evidence from Rohingya refugees

working paper

In this study, we conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) involving 3,500 Rohingya mother-child pairs in refugee camps in Bangladesh.

10 May 2024

Leveraging edutainment and social networks to foster interethnic harmony

working paper

Using a cluster-randomised field experiment, this paper investigates the effectiveness of educational entertainment in promoting interethnic harmony.

10 May 2024