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
Richard Blundell, Alan Duncan and Costas Meghir, January 1995,
Estimating labour supply responses using tax reforms,
IFS Working Papers
, W95/07
Now published:
Richard Blundell, Alan Duncan and Costas Meghir, July 1998,
Estimating labour supply responses using tax reforms,
Econometrica,
Vol. 66, No. 4, pp. 82761, Journal Articles
Alan Duncan and Chris Giles, January 1995,
Benefit reforms and labour supply incentives in the UK: the family credit,
IFS Working Papers
, W95/21
Alan Duncan and Chris Giles, January 1995,
Benefit reforms and labour supply incentives in the UK : the family credit,
Conference Papers
Alan Duncan and Ian Preston, October 1994,
A comparison of the properties of non-parametric estimates of the generalised entropy class of inequality indices,
IFS Working Papers
, W94/14
Alan Duncan and Andrew Jones, October 1994,
On the specification of labour supply models: a non-parametric evaluation,
IFS Working Papers
, W94/03
Richard Blundell, Alan Duncan and Costas Meghir, September 1993,
Robust estimation of labour supply responses in the presence of taxation,
Conference Papers
Alan Duncan, January 1993,
Labour supply decisions and non-convex budget sets : the case of National Insurance contributions in the UK,
in Empirical approaches to fiscal policy modelling Chapman & Hall,
Book Chapters
Andrew W Dilnot and Alan Duncan, January 1993,
Thinking about labour supply,
Journal of Economic Perspectives,
Vol. 13, pp. 687-713,
Journal Articles
Andrew W Dilnot and Alan Duncan, September 1992,
Social security and labour supply : a case study,
Conference Papers
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