From a simple (theoretical) growth argument, financial integration enables capitalscarce countries to raise capital inflows with positive effects on investment and on the speed of convergence. We...

The Green Budget will focus on the policy challenges confronting the Chancellor of the Exchequer in what is likely to be the last Budget before the General Election. It will be produced for the first time in collaboration with Barclays Capital and Barclays Wealth.

There will be two presentations at this seminar:Isolating the effect of tax and benefit reform on inequality and work incentives (James Browne joint with Stuart Adam) Accounting for changes in...

How much of the recent rise in foreclosures can be explained by the introduction of low downpayment, delayed amortization mortgage contracts? We present a model where heterogeneous households...

Recent policy initiatives have focused on facilitating employment for parents as a mean of lifting children out of poverty. But to what extent does entry into formal paid employment raise family...

The Chancellor will make his Pre-Budget statement on Wednesday 9 December. IFS will hold a briefing to present our analysis of this report on the following day, Thursday 10 December.

A joint seminar with the Centre for Longitudinal Studies.

We would like to invite you to a special seminar (jointly organized with UCL) in honour of James Durbin. The speaker this year is Professor T.W. Anderson of Stanford University. He is probably...

In this work we estimate the impacts of upfront fees and maintenance grants on UK higher education participation. We use cross-sectional LFS data from 1992-2005, which covers a period of great...

We look for evidence of effects of the VAT rate cut.

While the participation decision is discrete in a static context, i.e. to work or not to work, such is not the case in a dynamic context where workers choose the fraction of their lifetime that...

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit...

Organised by: Andrew Chesher (cemmap and UCL), James Banks (IFS and UCL), Thomas Crossley (IFS and Cambridge), Liam Delaney (UCD), Colm Harmon (UCD) and Joachim Winter (Munich).This workshop...

A rich literature in psychology suggests that teenagers may be influenced by the behavior of older siblings. A number of studies have found substantial correlations in risky behavior between...