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ISER has an enviable publications record in top academic journals and regularly presents its work at key conferences and policy events in the UK and around the world. It is also frequently commissioned to produce reports and papers for Government Departments, think tanks, charities and businesses and its important work is frequently featured in the media. You can search all of ISER’s outputs including by area of interest and author.

Fun time with mom makes kids smarter

  1. Emilia Del Bono
  2. Marco Francesconi
  3. Yvonne Kelly
  4. Amanda Sacker
Media - December 13, 2016

Kids who spend just half an hour a day with their mums are smarter, more sociable and even do better at university

  1. Emilia Del Bono
  2. Marco Francesconi
  3. Yvonne Kelly
  4. Amanda Sacker
Media - December 12, 2016

Just half an hour a day with mum makes a child smarter

  1. Emilia Del Bono
  2. Marco Francesconi
  3. Yvonne Kelly
  4. Amanda Sacker
Media - December 12, 2016

Child’s cognitive skills ‘linked to time spent with mother’

  1. Emilia Del Bono
  2. Marco Francesconi
  3. Yvonne Kelly
  4. Amanda Sacker
Media - December 4, 2016

Child’s cognitive skills linked to time spent with mother

  1. Emilia Del Bono
  2. Marco Francesconi
  3. Yvonne Kelly
  4. Amanda Sacker
Media - December 3, 2016

A cautionary tale for politicians pushing universal preschool

  1. Jo Blanden
  2. Emilia Del Bono
  3. Sandra McNally
  4. Birgitta Rabe
Media - June 20, 2016

Evidence of free hours’ benefits is lacking

  1. Jo Blanden
  2. Emilia Del Bono
  3. Sandra McNally
  4. Birgitta Rabe
Media - June 13, 2016

Free nursery places at age three ‘do not boost a child’s education’

  1. Jo Blanden
  2. Emilia Del Bono
  3. Sandra McNally
  4. Birgitta Rabe
Media - May 25, 2016

Free childcare ‘has made no improvement in primary school exam results’, research shows

  1. Jo Blanden
  2. Emilia Del Bono
  3. Sandra McNally
  4. Birgitta Rabe
Media - May 24, 2016

Free pre-school education: evidence of the impact on child outcomes in primary school

  1. Jo Blanden
  2. Emilia Del Bono
  3. Sandra McNally
  4. Birgitta Rabe
Media - May 15, 2016

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