Research
Publications and Reports
Longer-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the dietary purchasing choices of British households, IFS Report. 2024
Media coverage in the Times, Daily Mail, Sun, Telegraph, Guardian
Socio-economic inequality in Scottish education, IFS Report. 2023
Media coverage in The Herald, i, Tes, Glasgow Times, The Sunday Post, Press and Journal.
How did parents’ experiences in the labour market shape children’s social and emotional development during the pandemic?, IFS Report. 2023
Media coverage in the Telegraph.
The policy menu for school lunches: options and trade-offs in expanding free school meals in England, IFS Report. 2023
Media coverage in the Evening Standard, Daily Mirror, and Big Issue
Working Papers
"Parental labour market instability and children's mental health during the pandemic", IFS Working Paper WP202321 (2023) with Sarah Cattan, Christine Farquharson, Sonya Krutikova.
"The Role of Faith and Faith Schooling in Educational, Economic, and Faith Outcomes," IZA Discussion Papers 13192, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). (2020), with Ian Walker.
Updated version - from August 2020 - here (a Lancaster Economics Department working paper).
Media Coverage in the Daily Mail and Royal Economics Society Website
Currently Working On
The impact of the UK Healthy Start scheme on household food purchases, and child health and education.
The impact of COVID-19 on household food purchasing.
Explainers
Should government help families get a healthy start? Economic Review Vol. 41 Issue 2.