Children, families and education

This area investigates how children and young people develop. We will analyse how parents, school, peers and society interact to influence the development of children’s mental, social and physical skills, and the long-term consequences of childhood disadvantage. We will also look at how some people get more out of gaining a university degree than others.

Some of our current work:

• Intergenerational mobility and the labour market
• The impact of the great recession on early careers of graduates from different socio-economic backgrounds
• Private response to public investments: the impact of school quality information on parental inputs
• Sibling spillover effects in school achievement
• Sibling spillover effects in bad behaviour
• School exam performace
• Childhood economic circumstances and child well-being
• Early life event trajectories and early- and mid-adult health and social outcomes
• The impact of a health information intervention on children’s health and health related behaviour in the UK
• Maternal depression and child development: Evidence from a large-scale randomized controlled trial
• Understanding gender differences in leadership
• Who benefits the most from post-secondary schooling?

A full list of all ISER’s research

• Watch the MiSoC Special Session on Mental Health and Human Capital at the Royal Economic Society Conference 2017:
  Maternal Emotional Well-Being and Child Development. An Issue of Measurement? (Emillia Del Bono)
  Maternal Depression, Household Bargaining and Labour Supply: Experimental Evidence (Sonia Bhalotra)