Facts and figures about UK taxes, benefits and public spending.
Analysing government fiscal forecasts and tax and spending.
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.
Find out where you are in the income distribution.
Resources for schools and students.
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Research in this area at IFS is committed to identifying success and failures in interventions and to promoting best practice in evaluating and conducting interventions. In particular, the Centre will be a focal point for research on the impact of specific interventions in health, nutrition, skill acquisition, education, credit, insurance and labour. It will conduct evaluations of specific interventions in developing countries, provide support to institutions conducting evaluations, engage in advocacy on best practice in terms of evaluations and on the design of interventions itself.
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Despite the rapid expansion and increasing importance of private education in developing countries, very little is known about the impact of studying in private schools on educational attainment and wages. This paper contributes to fi
lling this gap by estimating the returns to private high schools in Mexico.
This is a summary of an intervention which we are investigating in an early child development project in Colombia.
This paper provides evidence on household responses to the relaxation of one barrier constraining adoption of health practices - lack of information - in a resource constrained setting.
These slides accompanied a presentation at an event organised by the Colombian government on 26 March 2012 in Bogota.
This presentation was given at the Centre for Study of African Economies Conference in Oxford on 18-20 March 2012 and the Royal Economic Society Annual Conference in Cambridge on 26-28 March 2012.
This comment piece describes the level of integration between pupils of different backgrounds in Bradford's schools
This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia.
A Kouvonen, JA Swift, M Stafford, T Cox, J Vahtera, A Väänänen, et al.
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This survey was among the first to use PDAs for data collection in rural Africa.
IFS research has contributed to consultation with governments in developing countries on the design of health and welfare programmes.
IFS researchers working in Malawi trained interviewers in the use of PDAs, helping to collect more complete and accurate information about people's lives.
IFS researchers develop a model of the Mexican tax system that will be used by the Mexican Government analysts.
Researchers at IFS have advised OPORTUNIDADES on the design and evaluation of new scholarships, and are carrying out its impact evaluation.
IFS researchers and the World Bank plan to develop capacity and tools in developing countries for the comprehensive analysis of tax reforms
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