Sarah Cattan
Research Fellow
Sarah Cattan is an Associate Director and co-Head of the Education and Skills sector at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, UK. She earned her PhD at the University of Chicago in 2012.
She is an applied microeconomic researcher with a research focus on the origins of inequality within and across generations. Her current projects look at the determinants of early childhood development, the drivers of intergenerational mobility, and the impact of COVID-19 on families' time-use and child development.
She joined IZA as a research affiliate in March 2016 and became Research Fellow in November 2021.
IZA Publications
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15560
forthcoming in: American Economic Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14868
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14745
Hannes Schwandt, Janet Currie, Marlies Bär, James Banks, Paola Bertoli, Aline Bütikofer, Sarah Cattan, Beatrice Zong-Ying Chao, Claudia Costa, Libertad González, Veronica Grembi, Kristiina Huttunen, René Karadakic, Lucy Kraftman, Sonya Krutikova, Stefano Lombardi, Peter Redler, Ana Rodríguez-González, Kjell G. Salvanes, Paula Santana, Josselin Thuilliez, Eddy van Doorslaer, Tom Van Ourti, Joachim Winter, Bram Wouterse, Amelie Wuppermann
published in: PNAS, 2021, 118 (40), e210468411
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13500
Alison Andrew, Sarah Cattan, Monica Costa Dias, Christine Farquharson, Lucy Kraftman, Sonya Krutikova, Angus Phimister, Almudena Sevilla
published in: Fiscal Studies, 2022, 43 (4), 325 - 340
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10995
updated version published as 'The Long-term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden' in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (650), 888-903
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10415
published as 'Does more free childcare help parents work more?' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 74,102100
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8856
published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (1), 48–85
IZA World of Labor Article
