News analysis published in Tax Notes International, 5 November, 2012

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

This report discusses why the government might want to intervene to reduce obesity, and what policy instruments are available.

This paper examines the ill-health retirement of police officers in the forces of England and Wales between 2002-03 and 2009-10. Published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Report published by the Economic and Social Research Institute

This research report presents the findings from a study that investigated the extent of parental worklessness in families with young and teenage children, and determined how parental worklessness impacts on children’s cognitive ability, education attainment, behaviours, attitude to school, academic aspirations and experience of the transition from school to work.

This research examines the changing structure of the UK jobs market in tandem with the effects of the tax and benefit system.

This article tests for asymmetric information in the UK private health insurance (PHI) market. Published in the Economic Journal.

This working paper uses a randomised controlled trial (RCT) to analyse the impact of microcredit on poverty reduction in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This report draws on the Mirrlees Review of efficient taxation to identify key reforms that could help to ease the squeeze on living standards by making the UK tax and benefit systems both more efficient and fair.