 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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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 and Tom Clark, July 2002,
The impact on incentives of five years of social security reform in the UK,
IFS Working Papers
, W02/14
Mike Brewer, Tom Clark and Matthew Wakefield, June 2002,
Five years of social security reforms in the UK,
IFS Working Papers
, W02/12
Mike Brewer, Tom Clark and Matthew Wakefield, May 2002,
The social security system under New Labour: What did the Third Way mean for welfare reform?,
Conference Papers
Mike Brewer and Tom Clark, April 2002,
Turning the tables on child poverty,
Public Finance Magazine,
Newspaper Articles
Mike Brewer, Tom Clark and Alissa Goodman, April 2002,
The government's child poverty target: how much progress has been made?,
IFS Reports
, C088
, 978-1-903274-25-5
Press release:
April 2002,
How far has child poverty declined?,
IFS Press Releases
James Banks and Mike Brewer, January 2002,
Understanding the relative generosity of government financial support for families with children,
IFS Working Papers
, W02/02
Mike Brewer, Tom Clark and Michal Myck, October 2001,
Credit where it's due? An assessment of the new tax credits,
IFS Reports
, C086
, 978-1-903274-22-4
Mike Brewer, Tom Clark and Matthew Wakefield, May 2001,
Labour's proposals,
Election Briefing Notes
, EBN09
Mike Brewer and Paul Gregg, April 2001,
Eradicating child poverty in Britain: welfare reform and children since 1997,
IFS Working Papers
, W01/08
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