Why greater investment in early years is a no-brainer for the Chancellor As Jeremy Hunt prepares to announce changes to childcare in England Claire Crawford & Laura Outhwaite of Centre for Ed Policy & Equalising Opportunities provide an analysis of the need for reform. Read ▶️ bit.ly/3yEJLiB

Interesting that the Chancellor badges childcare reforms as "education" but the motivations are entirely driven by work incentives #Budget2023

Nice to see our work on the impact of free childcare on mothers' labour supply with Mike Brewer Sarah Cattan Birgitta Rabe @rabe-b.bsky.social being used to inform the Office for Budget Responsibility estimates of the likely impact of the childcare reforms announced today #Budget2023 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Check out our new blog with Laura Outhwaite for immediate thoughts on the Chancellor's childcare reforms announced today #Budget2023

How will private schools respond if they have to include VAT in their fees? Our Deputy Director Jake Anders comments in Guardian Education theguardian.com/education/2023… IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society IOE Research UCL News

New mixed-methods paper from our Nuffield Foundation study on benefit changes and larger families. Thank you to all our research participants for sharing their stories with us. Two-child limit on UK welfare benefits ‘has failed to push parents into jobs’ theguardian.com/society/2023/j…

Great to see Office for National Statistics (ONS) use our rich data on the experiences of young people during the pandemic 👏 If you want to find out more about the study and read some of our latest research, head to our website 👇 cosmostudy.uk

Depressingly timely. Join us at 1pm to hear the results of our three year Nuffield Foundation project investigating the impacts of the two-child limit and the benefit cap. Details below.

You may impute the past but don’t impute the dead - the sequel. How to use the rich data of BCS70 to reduce bias from selective attrition and restore sample representativeness 👇

We are thrilled to be a lead partner in @PopResUK, a new strategic investment from UK Research and Innovation to harness the collective power of UK longitudinal population studies. The PRUK Hub's new Co-Directors Alissa Goodman and Nicholas Timpson welcome the announcement: cls.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-and-univer…

Proud to be contributing to @PRUK (Led by University of Bristol & UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies) via Population Data Science at Swansea University 's Chris Orton providing technical lead support to help tackle the technical barriers inherent in complex multimodal data & linkage. Find out how we're involved - serp.ac.uk/swansea-univer…

📢Exciting news! University of Bristol and UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies to lead support hub for UK’s longitudinal population studies, a new strategic investment from UK Research and Innovation

We are proud to see our Director of ScotCen Paul Bradshaw will be contributing to this new initiative as Co-Chair of Population Research UK.

Delighted to co-lead @PopResUK with @Nic_timpson and fantastic hub leadership group @Jenny_Symonds andy boyd Prof Rosie McEachan 🇪🇺 Paul Bradshaw

Would you like to be our new Head of Operations, or Senior Research Administrator? We are recruiting for key roles in our new @PopResUK hub team, at University of Bristol Jobs - search for PRUK

Fantastic new Longitudinal Resources Page on #CatalogueMHM from Louise Arseneault and team. Looking forward to building close links and connectivity with our new @PopResUK initiative together with Nicholas Timpson

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📢Interested in #GenderPayGap and how these evolve over the life-course and across generations? Check out our new blog summarising the findings from our Economic and Social Research Council funded project at blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2024/07/03… UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society Alex Bryson

The UK’s two main political parties both want to improve the nation’s numeracy. But what’s the evidence on the long-term returns to maths education? Our new policy briefing outlines the evidence from the CLS cohorts ➡️ bit.ly/3RQXNaM