impact of the COVID pandemic on the mental health of school-age children in England. We focus on how the significant pandemic … induced disruptions to parental employment affected children and through what mechanisms, using unique nationally … significant and negative impact on children’s mental health of around 9% of a standard deviation equivalent to around 30% of the …

reduces contemporaneous academic performance, final educational attainment and labor income throughout the life-cycle. The …

for adolescents. Exploiting educational administrative data on ten cohorts of state-educated secondary school students, we … the funding did not affect students’ absenteeism or academic attainment, but it prevented around 800 students (c. 10% of … students typically excluded yearly) from being excluded in its first year. The transient nature of this effect suggests that …

parents of school-aged children in two-parent opposite-gender families. In line with existing evidence, we find that mothers … industries and occupations in which parents worked prior to the lockdown. Nor can they be explained by gender differences in …

We use newly linked UK administrative to estimate absolute income mobility for children born in England in the 1980s …. We find huge differences across the country, with a strong North-South gradient. Children from low-income families who … play to equalise opportunities of children from low-income families across the country, though will not be sufficient to …

worker parents from 23 March to the end of May; theybegan to reopen in June and July, but some children remained out of the …, better-off parents were around 50% more likely to send their children back to school when given the choice. Since better … children’s education. During the first lockdown, schools were closed to all but the most vulnerable children and those with key …

This paper evaluates the short- and medium-term health impacts of offering families with children under 5 universal … these centres during early childhood increases the probability of hospitalisation for infants in the local area. As children … practices and home environments, and improved emotional and behavioural development among children. …

Early Childhood Interventions (ECI) offering disadvantaged children preschool and family support services in the US … show long-lasting health impacts. Can these benefits hold when these programs are offered to all children in contexts with …-eligible children increases hospitalizations by 10% at age 1, but reduces them by 8-9% across ages 11-15. Impacts are concentrated in …