In this paper we look at how the tax and benefit system redistributed income and affected incentives to work in 2009-10, and at the effect of tax and benefit reforms between 1978-79 and 2009-10 on the level of inequality and work incentives.

Current and future governments are committed to reducing the rate of relative income child poverty in the UK to 10% by 2020-21. This paper looks in detail at the progress made towards this goal under the previous Labour administrations.

This paper compares patterns of private school attendance in the UK and Australia.

This paper looks at the impact of private school fees and school quality on the demand for private secondary schooling in the UK.

This paper tests whether family size has a causal effect on girls' education in Mexico.

Childcare costs are often viewed as one of the biggest barriers to work, particularly among lone parents on low incomes. We investigate the impact of youngest child being eligible for full-time primary education (relative to part-time nursery education) on welfare receipt and employment patterns amongst lone parents receiving welfare.

We study non cooperative household models with two agents and several voluntarily contributed public goods.

We examine the effect of large cash transfers on the consumption of food by poor households in rural Mexico.

We find a very strong correlation between cognitive ability across generations, as well as a strong relationship between family socio-economic status and cognitive ability.

Using a simple decomposition analysis, we show that around two thirds of the socio-economic gap in attainment at age 16 can be accounted for by long-run family background characteristics and prior ability.