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Despite increasing numbers of young people taking a gap year, there is little evidence on the characteristics of gap year takers, their motivations for taking a gap year,what they do whilst they are out of education and what effect this decision has on their longer-term outcomes. This report aims to fill these gaps, by providing quantitative evidence from two datasets on gap year takers in the UK.

This EBRD impact brief reports on a randomised field experiment in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This research report presents the findings from a study that investigated the extent of parental worklessness in families with young and teenage children, and determined how parental worklessness impacts on children’s cognitive ability, education attainment, behaviours, attitude to school, academic aspirations and experience of the transition from school to work.

We use an RCT to analyze the impact of microcredit on poverty reduction, child and teenage labour supply, and education in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This report presents the findings of a survey of local authorities, examining preparations for Raising the Participation Age, conducted by NatCen Social Research on behalf of the Department for Education.

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia.

Welcome to the second edition of the CAYT digest.

In this paper, we use an economic model to analyse data from a major randomized social experiment, namely PROGRESA in Mexico, and to evaluate its impact on school participation.

In the context of a difficult 2011 labour market, this report examines the early educational and labour market transitions made by young people.

A DfE research brief from the Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions (CAYT).

Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia

The present study examined pathways to financial independence from social welfare among 738 teenage mothers, participants of the 1970 British Cohort Study.

This report explores what types of firm engage with the apprenticeship programme and if there are characteristics that make them more or less likely to offer apprenticeships.

This study investigated the hypothesis that offering vocational options in Year 10 can help improve levels of educational engagement and subsequent outcomes among young people disengaged from education.

The analyses summarised here explore the educational outcomes of disengaged young people from a nationally representative cohort who reported taking vocational courses in Year 10 compared to similarly disengaged young people who did not.

This report analyses the impact that ERA has had on a variety of outcomes experienced by working members of the New Deal for Lone Parents and Working Tax Credit target groups, as well as on the tax year earnings of working members of the New Deal 25 plus target group.