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This commentary describes the changes to the structure of child-contingent support through the tax and benefit system since 1975. It also presents new results, which were produced to quantify explicitly the amount of government support for families with children, using representative samples of families from over the past three decades. With these data, it is possible to examine whether child-contingent support has become more or less progressive, or more or less slanted towards large families, lone-parents families or families with young children.
Authors
Mike Brewer
Senior Economist
Stuart is a Senior Economist working in the Tax sector, and focuses on analysing the design of the tax and benefit system.
Howard Reed
Report details
- DOI
- 10.1920/co.ifs.2002.0091
- ISBN
- 978-1-903274-28-6
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
S, Adam and M, Brewer and H, Reed. (2002). The benefits of parenting: Government financial support for families with children since 1975. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/benefits-parenting-government-financial-support-families-children-1975 (accessed: 19 April 2024).
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