, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the … benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality … children who attended such programmes no better off academically than those who did not. This paper studies the relationship …

In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental … with children in Germany. Our study confirms that the monetary cost of children is substantial and increases with parental … sizeable for families with children …

We study the relationship between a key early intervention policy designed to support families with children up to the … age of four and the rate at which children are taken into social care. The gradual build-up of over 3,600 Sure Start … Children's Centres (SSCC), operated by Local Authorities across England, created large spatial and cohort variation in the …

impacts on children's development in mathematics, language and executive functioning. Compared to business as usual, the nine …

In recent years, many countries have experienced a significant expansion of higher education enrolment. There is a … and non-STEM fields. Using administrative data from a large UK higher education institution, we consider a sample of 25 …

Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have … recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced …

-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys …