 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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Our approach is to combine new ideas in economic theory with cutting-edge microeconometric methods.
By using data to analyse the characteristics and behaviour of people and firms at a disaggregated level, we can develop a richer understanding of the impact of policy and its social and economic environment than is possible simply from looking at aggregate measures. To help achieve this, our research agenda encompasses investigation of microeconometric methods, policy evaluation methodology and modelling of individual, household and firm behaviour, as well as analysis of particular policy issues and key ingredients for effective policy development.
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We develop a nonparametric empirical method for deriving welfare rankings for a social planner based on data envelopment, which avoids the need to specify a weighting scheme.
This paper compares partial and general equilibrium e ects of alternative education policies on the distribution of education and earnings.
James Heckman, Seong Hyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter Savelyev and Adam Yavitz
Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions.
This paper provides estimators for moments and quantiles of the unknown distribution in this problem.
Stefan Hoderlein
This paper develops a concrete formula for the asymptotic distribution of two-step, possibly non-smooth semiparametric M-estimators under general misspecification.
Jerry Hausman, Menzel, Conrad, Lewis, Randall and Whitney Newey
In this paper we modify CUE to solve the no moments/large dispersion problem.
Oliver Linton, Song, Kyungchul and Wang, Yoon-Jae
We propose a new method of testing stochastic dominance which improves on existing tests based on bootstrap or subsampling.
Markus Frolich and Lechner, Michael
We estimate the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on subsequent employment by nonparametric instrumental variables and matching estimators.
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  We run a policy evaluation methods course that has trained practitioners inside and outside government how to conduct an evaluation and interpret the results.
We provided evidence to the Browne Review of higher education funding about the impact of a number of higher education finance reforms.
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