This Commentary documents in some detail how children's cognitive and social development differs between married and cohabiting parents, and provides a preliminary assessment of the extent to which such differences might be due to a causal effect of marriage itself.

IFS researchers assess the rationale for a pupil premium and offer an empirical analysis of how such a scheme might operate in practice and affect school finances.

As the Government and Opposition alike ponder how best to repair Britain's battered public finances, the Green Budget looks at some of the salient economic issues.

This Commentary examines detailed trends in expenditure patterns between 1995 and 2007, with a particular focus on the pensioner population.

This Commentary provides an assessment of the number of individuals likely to be affected by forthcoming reforms to private pensions.

This Commentary assesses the latest changes to average incomes, inequality and poverty.

A Tax Law Review Committee discussion paper considering the ways in which tax avoidance has been tackled and could be tackled in the UK.

The 2008 Pre-Budget Report (PBR) said that 'the Government will take stock of progress towards its 2010 and 2020 child poverty target in the [2009] Budget'. As background to that exercise, this paper updates our previous analysis of the prospects for child poverty in the UK in 2010-11 and 2020-21.

The Green Budget argues that 20 billion pounds of further tax increases or spending cuts may be needed by the end of the next Parliament if the public finances are to improve as the Treasury hoped in last year's Pre-Budget Report.