Lucy Stokes
Lucy is a Principal Economist at NIESR, her work primarily focuses on issues relating to education and employment.
Job Title
Principal Economist
Research Interests
Lucy’s research interests focus primarily on issues relating to education and employment. Research on education includes consideration of school performance and effectiveness, as well as evaluation of educational interventions. She also conducts research on various issues concerning employment and labour markets, with a particular interest in employees’ experiences at work.
Education
1998-2002 – BSc Economics (First Class Honours), University of Surrey
Employment
2012-present – Principal Economist, National Institute of Economics and Social research
2010-2012– Senior Research Officer, National Institute of Economics and Social research
2003-2010 – Research Officer, National Institute of Economics and Social research
2000-2001 – Research Assistant, Global Economics Department, Lehman Brothers
Additional Information
Publications
URLEY (Using Research Tools to Improve Language in the Early Years) Evaluation Report
26 Feb 2020
Report
What does leadership look like in schools and does it matter for school performance?
18 Oct 2019
Discussion Papers
Work-Life Imbalance in Extended Working Lives: Domestic Divisions of Labour and Partners’ Perceptions of Job Pressure of Non-Retiring Older Workers
01 Apr 2019
Journal article/book/chapter
The Performance Pay Premium and Wage Dispersion in Britain
01 Mar 2018
Journal article/book/chapter
Quantitative programme of research for adult English and maths: Longitudinal survey of adult learners final research report
27 Feb 2018
Report
The relative effectiveness of blended versus face-to-face adult English and maths learning
27 Feb 2018
Report
Quantitative programme of research for adult English and maths: Longitudinal survey of adult learners waves 1 and 2
27 Feb 2018
Report
Assessing the variance in pupil attainment: how important is the school attended?
07 Feb 2018
National Institute Economic Review
Better schools for all? Introduction to National Institute Economic Review February 2018
07 Feb 2018
National Institute Economic Review
Who Fared Better? The Fortunes of Performance Pay and Fixed Pay Workers through Recession
13 Jun 2017
Journal article/book/chapter
How much performance pay is there in the public sector and what are its effects?
12 May 2017
Journal article/book/chapter
Does employees’ subjective well-being affect workplace performance?
09 May 2017
Journal article/book/chapter
Older workers and the workplace: Evidence from the Workplace Employment Relations Survey
02 Feb 2017
Report
Who Fared Better? The Fortunes of Performance-Pay and Fixed-Pay Workers Through Recession
12 Nov 2014
Discussion Papers
Measuring performance pay: using the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and the Monthly Wages and Salaries Survey (seminar presentation)
06 Nov 2014
Conference and seminar output
Employment Relations in the Shadow of Recession
25 Nov 2013
Conference and seminar output
Does early education influence Key Stage I attainment? Evidence from England for the millennium cohort study
02 Nov 2012
National Institute Economic Review
Quality of early years provision and outcomes at age seven: evidence for England from the Millennium Cohort Study
07 May 2012
Conference and seminar output
Quality and outcomes in secondary schools in England
11 Oct 2011
Conference and seminar output
Country Case Studies – Labour mobility within the EU – European Commission
15 Jul 2011
Report
Review of indicators of outcomes and effectiveness of treatment for some specific diseases
31 May 2011
Report
Quality and outcomes in early years education in England
20 May 2011
Conference and seminar output
The role of quality adjustment in assessing the performance of health services
08 Apr 2011
Conference and seminar output
Measuring the productivity of the health care sector: theory and implementation
28 Feb 2011
Report
Measuring education input, output and outcomes: State of the art and data availability
31 Jan 2011
Report
How do different measures of quality of early years education provision compare? And how does quality influence child outcomes?
12 Nov 2009
Conference and seminar output
Using foundation stage profile assessments to assess outcomes from early years education
04 Feb 2009
National Institute Economic Review
Public service productivity: new approaches to performance measurement in health sectors
31 Oct 2008
Journal article/book/chapter
Value for money comparison of public and voluntary sector provision of pre-school childcare and education: literature review
31 Oct 2007
Report
Pre-school childcare and education – A value for money comparison of public and voluntary sector provision
02 May 2007
Conference and seminar output
A new approach to measuring health system output and productivity
30 Apr 2007
National Institute Economic Review
A Regional Perspective on Employment Relations: Tabulations from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey
04 Dec 2006
Report
Developing new approaches to measuring NHS outputs and productivity
02 Dec 2005
Discussion Papers
Metrics, Targets & Performance: The Case of NHS Trusts
23 Jun 2005
Conference and seminar output
Blog Posts
Can Texting Parents Help Improve Children’s Development?
Lucy Stokes
Ceri Williams
Anneka Dawson
5 min read
Safeguarding the safeguards – A case for more support in schools
Lucy Stokes
Chiara Manzoni
Johnny Runge
Lei Xu
Richard Dorsett
5 min read
Can an app help spot the gap? How technology might help address attainment gaps among early years children
Lucy Stokes
Johnny Runge
Chiara Manzoni
Anneka Dawson
Clare Huxley
5 min read
You can count on it – how mathematical reasoning can help children do the maths
Lucy Stokes
Nathan Hudson-Sharp
Richard Dorsett
4 min read
Should schools bother with modern human resources management?
Lucy Stokes
Alex Bryson
David Wilkinson
6 min read
What might an ageing workforce mean for workplace performance?
Lucy Stokes
Alex Bryson
4 min read
Evaluating impact in the social sector: a practical perspective
Jake Anders
Lucy Stokes
Tamara Baleanu
7 min read