Facts and figures about UK taxes, benefits and public spending.
Income distribution, poverty and inequality.
Analysing government fiscal forecasts and tax and spending.
Analysis of the fiscal choices an independent Scotland would face.
Case studies that give a flavour of the areas where IFS research has an impact on society.
Reforming the tax system for the 21st century.
A peer-reviewed quarterly journal publishing articles by academics and practitioners.
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Professor Duncan stepped into the role of Director at NATSEM on March 29 2010, leaving his previous position of Professor of Microeconomics and the Head of School at Nottingham School of Economics, University of Nottingham. Professor Duncan joined the University of Nottingham in 1999 as a Reader in Applied Microeconomics and was promoted to Professor of Microeconomics in 2001. He has held positions at the University of York and the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) where he is currently a Research Associate. Professor Duncan’s research interests lie within the fields of welfare program evaluation, the analysis of work incentives, static and behavioural tax microsimulation, econometric models of labour supply, labour market and welfare programme participation, modelling childcare use and the impact of childcare policies, poverty and poverty alleviation, semiparametric and nonparametric estimation methods. He has published widely in these fields such as Econometrica, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Applied Econometrics and Fiscal Studies.
All available publications
Mike Brewer, Alan Duncan and Andrew Shephard, January 2007,
Did working families' tax credit work? The impact of in-work support on labour supply in Great Britain,
Labour Economics,
Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 699-720,
Elsevier,
Journal Articles
Previous versions:
Mike Brewer, Alan Duncan, Andrew Shephard and María José Suárez, June 2005,
Did Working Families' Tax Credit work? The final evaluation of the impact of in-work support on parents' labour supply and take-up behaviour in the UK,
External publications
, HM Revenue and Customs
Mike Brewer, Alan Duncan, Andrew Shephard and María José Suárez, June 2005,
Did Working Families' Tax Credit work? The final evaluation of the impact of in-work support on parents' labour supply and take-up behaviour in the UK,
External publications
, HM Revenue and Customs
Mike Brewer, Alan Duncan, Andrew Shephard and María José Suárez, December 2003,
Did Working Families' Tax Credit work? Analysing the impact of in-work support on labour supply and programme participation,
External publications
, Inland Revenue
Gillian Paull, Jayne Taylor and Alan Duncan, March 2002,
Mothers' employment and childcare in Britain,
IFS Reports
, R64
, 978-1-903274-23-1
Press release:
Gillian Paull and Alan Duncan, March 2002,
Can mothers afford to work?,
IFS Press Releases
John Creedy and Alan Duncan, November 2001,
Aggregating labour supply and feedback effects in microsimulation,
IFS Working Papers
, W01/24
Alan Duncan, Gillian Paull and Jayne Taylor, October 2001,
Mothers' employment and the use of childcare in the UK,
IFS Working Papers
, W01/23
Alan Duncan, Gillian Paull and Jayne Taylor, May 2001,
Price and quality in the UK childcare market,
IFS Working Papers
, W01/14
Alan Duncan and Graham Stark, May 2000,
A recursive algorithm to generate piecewise linear budget contraints,
IFS Working Papers
, W00/11
Richard Blundell, Alan Duncan, Julian McCrae and Costas Meghir, March 2000,
The labour market impact of the working families' tax credit,
Fiscal Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, March 2000,
Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 75-103,
Journal Articles
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