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Mike Brewer is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Professor of Economics at the University of Essex. He is also Director of an ESRC-funded National Centre for Research Methods Node called "Programme Evaluation for Policy Analysis" based at IFS and cemmap. His main interests are in the design and impact of 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. He studied economics at the universities of Cambridge and Bristol and he has worked at HM Treasury, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Institute for Economic and Social Research, University of Essex. 
All available publications
Mike Brewer and Liam Wren-Lewis, December 2011,
Why did Britain's households get richer? Decomposing UK household income growth between 1968 and 2008-09 (IFS analysis for the Resolution Foundation),
IFS Briefing Notes
, BN125
Mike Brewer, James Browne and Robert Joyce, October 2011,
Universal Credit not enough to prevent a decade of rising poverty,
IFS Press Releases
Mike Brewer, James Browne and Robert Joyce, October 2011,
Child and working-age poverty from 2010 to 2020,
IFS Commentaries
, C121
, 978-1-903274-86-6
Press release:
Mike Brewer, James Browne and Robert Joyce, October 2011,
Universal Credit not enough to prevent a decade of rising poverty,
IFS Press Releases
Mike Brewer, James Browne, Haroon Chowdry and Claire Crawford, August 2011,
The impact of a time-limited, targeted in-work benefit in the medium-term: an evaluation of In Work Credit,
IFS Working Papers
, W11/14
Mike Brewer, May 2011,
The fiscal crisis and welfare benefits in the UK: big cuts and radical reforms,
Presentations
Mike Brewer and Claire Crawford, April 2011,
Starting school and leaving welfare: the impact of public education on lone parents' welfare receipt,
Presentations
Mike Brewer and Cormac O'Dea, March 2011,
Least well-off in society better identified by low spending than low income,
IFS Press Releases
Mike Brewer, Carl Emmerson and Helen Miller (eds), February 2011,
The IFS Green Budget: February 2011,
IFS Commentaries
, C117
Press release:
Mike Brewer, Carl Emmerson, Paul Johnson and Helen Miller, February 2011,
Tax rises and spending cuts will hurt, but little room for Budget easing,
IFS Press Releases
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