Sarah Cattan

Biographic Data

ID5805309
NAMESarah Cattan
GIVEN NAMESSarah
FAMILY NAMECattan
SIGNATURECATTAN S
AFFILIATIONSInstitute for Fiscal Studies
ORCID0000-0001-7339-7051
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Educational mobility across multiple generations in Indonesia

    Open AccessSarah Cattan, Antonio Dalla-Zuanna et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2026

    Standard intergenerational measures have been shown to understate the long-run persistence of socioeconomic advantages in developed countries. We study theoretically and empirically whether this pattern extends to less developed settings, using Indonesia as a case study. Using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) and Census data, we study multigenerational correlations in education across three generations. Contrary to previous findings, we o…

  • The impact of area level mental health interventions on outcomes for secondary school pupils

    Open AccessSarah Cattan, S Tanya Lereya et al.ARTICLEEconomics of Education Review2023

    In light of the dramatic rise in mental health disorders amongst adolescents seen in the past decade across the world, there is an urgent need for robust evidence on what works to combat this trend. This paper provides the first robust evaluation of the impacts on school outcomes of 6-year funding programme (HeadStart) for area-level mental health interventions for adolescents. Exploiting educational administrative data on ten cohorts of state-ed…

  • The Long-Term Effects of Student Absence

    Open AccessSarah Cattan, Daniel Kamhöfer et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2022Cited by: 7References: 2

    Despite the relatively uncontested importance of promoting school attendance in the policy arena, little evidence exists on the causal effect of school absence on long-run outcomes. We address this question by combining historical and administrative records for cohorts of Swedish individuals born in the 1930s. We find that elementary school absence significantly reduces contemporaneous academic performance, final educational attainment and labour…

  • Inequalities in Children's Experiences of Home Learning during the Covid‐19 Lockdown in England

    Open AccessAlison Andrews, Alison Andrew et al.ARTICLEFiscal Studies2020

    This paper combines novel data on the time use, home‐learning practices and economic circumstances of families with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown with pre‐lockdown data from the UK Time Use Survey to characterise the time use of children and how it changed during lockdown, and to gauge the extent to which changes in time use and learning practices during this period are likely to reinforce the already large gaps in educational attainment …

  • Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital

    Orazio Attanasio, Sarah Cattan et al.ARTICLEAmerican Economic Review2020

    We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children aged 12 to 24 months at baseline. We estimate the determinants of parents’ material and time investments in these children and evaluate the impact of the treatment on such investments. We then estimate the production functions for cognitive and socio-e…

  • The long shadow of deprivation

    Lorraine Dearden, Pedro Carneiro et al.REPORT2020

    A socially mobile country provides equal opportunities for everyone, across big cities and small towns, and regardless of whether your parents are rich or poor. This report makes use of newly linked administrative data on all state-educated pupils born between 1986 and 1988 to follow a group of sons from where they grew up, looking at their family circumstances and their educational achievement, through to the labour market.