This paper explores the role of individual experiences and school characteristics in determining changes in disengagement between the age of 14 and 16.

Efficiency savings alone won't be enough to sort out the UK's massive deficit and there will have to be cuts in the quality and/or quantity of public services coupled with cuts to welfare benefits and increases in tax, write Rowena Crawford and Carl Emmerson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

This report examines the extent to which the aspirations, attitudes and behaviour of parents and children can help explain why poor children typically do worse at school than children from richer backgrounds. It is based on the analysis of a number of large-scale longitudinal data sources capturing groups of children in the UK from early childhood through to late adolescence.

The aim of this report is to explore how the findings from the experimental research on ERA relate to the impacts that would have been experienced, on average, by all the people who were eligible for the programme, had they participated in the study.

This report documents the dynamic patterns in work and poverty for families using data for the years 2001 to 2006 from the Families and Children Study.

This note compares three policies that have been recently suggested which would change the way that families with children are treated by the tax and benefit system.

This report aims to assess the relative importance of the (many) factors influencing changes in income inequality between 1968 and 2006-07.

This paper reviews how income-support systems affacte labour force participation in the UK.

New research published today by the Department for Work and Pensions estimates the labour market impact of a set of five government policies designed to help lone parents into work.

This is an executive summary of a report,