Centre for Evidence-Based Public Services

• Welfare
  Research under this theme evaluates welfare reforms and labour market policies in international settings. We are actively engaged with the relevant policy communities to ensure that our findings reach the right audiences. In some cases, for example where we are running RCTs, the research is co-produced with policy stakeholders.
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• Education
  Research focuses on school choice, pupil motivation, and labour markets for teachers and academics. Our findings are of direct relevance to policy makers, for example the Department for Education and Skills, and to schools and Higher Education Institutions.
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• Health
  Research focuses on the co-dependence between health and economic outcomes, exploring how shocks to health and well-being affect outcomes such as educational attainment and employment, as well as vice versa.
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• Environment
  Research evaluates the effects of transport infrastructure investments, as well as using house price responses to transport and environmental policies as a method of valuing their perceived costs or benefits. Other research covers the pricing policies of airports, and looks at urban development in multiple country settings.
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• Data
  This cross-cutting theme focuses on causal inference, methodological development for data combination as well as practical data development and data linkage for use in applied micro-econometric research. Our econometric research has applications within each of our policy-orientated research themes.
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