Lorraine Dearden is Professor of Economics and Social Statistics in the Social Research Institute at University College London and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Her work involves using data and advanced quantitative techniques to understand, evaluate and inform economic and public policy making.

She has a wide range of policy interests including higher education access and financing; evaluation methods; returns to education; evaluating school and university effectiveness; intergenerational education and income mobility; understanding the causes and consequences of child adversity and vulnerability; evaluating policies that try to help improve child and adult outcomes; the impact of education and training on company performance; ethnic inequality in childhood and adult outcomes; and wage determination and the labour market. She has published widely on all these issues in high quality economics and epidemiology journals.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 2008.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11422
published as 'The US college loans system: Lessons from Australia and England' in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 71, 32 - 48
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5839
published in: Fiscal Studies, 2011, 32(2), 225-244
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4991
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2013, 176 (2), 431–457
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