 Facts and figures about UK taxes, benefits and public spending.
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Analysis of the fiscal choices an independent Scotland would face.
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A peer-reviewed quarterly journal publishing articles by academics and practitioners.
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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. 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, Tom Clark and Alissa Goodman, June 2003,
What really happened to child poverty under Labour's first term?,
Economic Journal,
Vol. 113, No. 488, pp. F240-F257,
Royal Economic Society,
Journal Articles
Stuart Adam and Mike Brewer, April 2003,
Children, well-being and taxes and benefits: Part II,
Economic Review,
Vol. 20, No. 4,
Philip Allan,
Journal Articles
Gillian Paull and Mike Brewer, March 2003,
Submission to the Work and Pensions Select Committee Inquiry: 'How can suitable, affordable childcare be provided for all parents who need it to enable them to work?',
IFS Briefing Notes
, BN34
Mike Brewer, Alissa Goodman and Andrew Shephard, March 2003,
How has child poverty changed since 1998-99? An update,
IFS Briefing Notes
, BN32
James Banks and Mike Brewer, February 2003,
Understanding the generosity of government support to households with children,
in Children and social security, Jonathan Bradshaw (ed.) Ashgate Publishing,
Book Chapters
Stuart Adam and Mike Brewer, February 2003,
Children, well-being and taxes and benefits: Part I,
Economic Review,
Vol. 20, No. 3,
Journal Articles
Mike Brewer and Paul Gregg, January 2003,
Eradicating child poverty in Britain: welfare reform and children since 1997,
in The welfare we want? the British challenge to the American reform, R. Walker and M. Wiseman (eds.)
Book Chapters
Mike Brewer, Tom Clark and Matthew Wakefield, December 2002,
Social security in the UK under New Labour: what did the Third Way mean for welfare reform? ,
Fiscal Studies, Vol. 23, No. 4., December 2002,
Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 505-537,
Journal Articles
Stuart Adam, Mike Brewer and Howard Reed, November 2002,
The benefits of parenting: Government financial support for families with children since 1975,
IFS Reports
, C091
, 978-1-903274-28-6
Press release:
November 2002,
The benefits of parenting,
IFS Press Releases
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