This article argues that it is hard to find a coherent question to which reduced tax rates for the self-employed and small companies are the best answer.

In this paper we look at lifetime inequality to address two main questions: How well does a modern tax system, based on annual information, target lifetime inequality? What aspects of the tranfser system are most progressive from a lifetime perspective?

Currently there is no established way to measure expenditure in the context of a general purpose survey. In this report NatCen's Questionnaire Development Testing (QDT) Hub, working in collaboration with the Institute for Fiscal Studies and collaborators from Oxford and Cambridge Universities, look at how best to measure expenditure in a social survey context.

This report, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, provides findings from a series of focus groups investigating how people think about household expenditure and what issues people may have in reporting household expenditure in a social survey context.

The Nuffield Foundation has funded a collaborative research team from NatCen Social Research, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Oxford and Cambridge Universities to develop a standard question or questions designed to capture household spending. This report presents the findings of this second round of cognitive testing.

Chapter from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, 2012

Chapter from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing 2012

The savings will take a long time to be realised: only about 35,000 workless families have a third child each year

Article published in the Independent 26 October 2012

We propose an alternative (“dual regression”) to the quantile regression process for the global estimation of conditional distribution functions under minimal assumptions.

Paper given at the 4th Joint IZA/IFAU conference on labour market policy evaluation, October 25-26 2012