Alissa Goodman

Alissa Goodman is Professor of Economics and Co-Director of Generation New Era, a new birth cohort of 30,000 babies born across the UK. She is also Co-Director of Population Research UK.

Alissa joined CLS in 2013 as PI of the 1958 National Child Development Study, having previously worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, where she served as its Deputy Director (2006-2012), and Director of its Education and Skills research sector.

Alissa’s main research interests relate to inequality, poverty, education policy, and the intergenerational transmission of health and wellbeing. Alissa was awarded a CBE for services to social science in 2021.