Claire is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and a Research Fellow of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Her research interests focus on the determinants of educational attainment and HE participation, including the roles of socio-economic status, expectations and aspirations, month of birth and parents' marital status. She is particularly interested in how education policy can be used to improve the outcomes of children from disadvantaged backgrounds, and has played a leading role in the evaluations of a number of education programmes aiming to do just that, including on behalf of the Department of Education and the Education Endowment Foundation. She is also managing editor of Fiscal Studies.
Experience
2014–present
Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of Warwick
2010–2013
Programme Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
2004–2010
Research Economist then Senior Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Education
2012
Institute of Education, PhD in Economics of Education
2004
University College London, MSc Economics
2003
Lancaster University, BA (Hons) Economics (1st)
Publications
2014
What can wages and employment tell us about the UK's productivity puzzle? (with R. Blundell and W. Jin), Economic Journal
2014
The choice between fixed and random effects models: some considerations for educational research (with P. Clarke, F. Steele & A. Vignoles) , Education Economics
2013
Widening participation in higher education: analysis using linked administrative data (with H. Chowdry, L. Dearden, A. Goodman & A. Vignoles), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A