Mike Brewer Programme director E-mail Mike Education BA Economics and Mathematics (1st class), University of Cambridge (1996) MSc Economics and Econometrics (Distinction), University of Bristol (1997)

Mike Brewer is director of the Direct Tax and Welfare research programme. His main interests are in welfare reforms, and the way the tax and benefit system affects families with children.

Within this broad area, he has analysed the generosity of the tax and benefit system for families with children, and the impact of the same on work incentives. He took part in a major evaluation of working families' tax credit, examining its impact on labour supply and take-up, and more recently has evaluated the labour market impact of In Work Credit. Other research has looked at fertility and public policy, how women's labour market behaviour changes after they have children, and trends in childcare use. He has an interest in measuring poverty and living standards, and has closely followed the current government's ambition to eradicate child poverty.

Mike is currently a member of the National Equality Panel, and is a also Research Affiliate of the National Poverty Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Before working at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, he was an economist at HM Treasury, and studied economics at the universities of Cambridge and Bristol.

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