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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.

Does more free childcare help parents work more?

  1. Mike Brewer
  2. Sarah Cattan
  3. Claire Crawford
  4. Birgitta Rabe
Journal Article - January 15, 2022
  1. Labour Market
  2. Economics
  3. Public Policy
  4. Education
  5. Caregiving

Universal pre-school and labor supply of mothers

  1. Mike Brewer
  2. Sarah Cattan
Journal Article - June 1, 2017
  1. Labour Market
  2. Public Policy
  3. Childbearing: Fertility
  4. Education
  5. Caregiving

Does free childcare help parents work?

  1. Mike Brewer
  2. Sarah Cattan
  3. Claire Crawford
  4. Birgitta Rabe
Report, IFS Briefing Notes, BN189 - December 15, 2016
  1. Labour Market
  2. Household Economics
  3. Public Policy
  4. Education
  5. Caregiving

Free childcare and parents’ labour supply: is more better?

  1. Mike Brewer
  2. Sarah Cattan
  3. Claire Crawford
  4. Birgitta Rabe
Research Paper, IZA Discussion Papers, 10415 - December 15, 2016
  1. Labour Market
  2. Household Economics
  3. Public Policy
  4. Education
  5. Caregiving

Free childcare and parents’ labour supply: is more better?

  1. Mike Brewer
  2. Sarah Cattan
  3. Claire Crawford
  4. Birgitta Rabe
Research Paper, IFS Working Paper Series, W16/22 - December 15, 2016
  1. Labour Market
  2. Household Economics
  3. Public Policy
  4. Education
  5. Caregiving

30 hours of free childcare likely to boost parental employment only slightly

  1. Mike Brewer
  2. Sarah Cattan
  3. Claire Crawford
  4. Birgitta Rabe
Media - December 2, 2016

30 hours of free childcare likely to boost parental employment only slightly

  1. Mike Brewer
  2. Sarah Cattan
  3. Claire Crawford
  4. Birgitta Rabe
Media - December 1, 2016

‘Little impact’ from nursery places

  1. Jo Blanden
  2. Emilia Del Bono
  3. Kirstine Hansen
  4. Sandra McNally
  5. Birgitta Rabe
  6. , et al
Media - March 30, 2015

Free nursery places have ‘no educational benefit’, research shows

  1. Jo Blanden
  2. Emilia Del Bono
  3. Kirstine Hansen
  4. Sandra McNally
  5. Birgitta Rabe
  6. , et al
Media - March 30, 2015

Free nursery places ‘make no academic difference’

  1. Jo Blanden
  2. Emilia Del Bono
  3. Kirstine Hansen
  4. Sandra McNally
  5. Birgitta Rabe
  6. , et al
Media - March 30, 2015

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