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Reforming the tax system for the 21st century.
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The distribution of income, consumption and wealth continues to be a central area of IFS research. Amongst the many aspects of our work in this area, we seek to chart, explain, and understand changes in inequality in wages, earnings, incomes and consumption, in the UK and other countries; we also seek to examine the effectiveness of a wide range of policies aimed at reducing poverty - including taxes and benefits, and other types of policy interventions - both at home and abroad.
Our research is also concerned with the welfare implications of changes both to inequality and poverty. These depend on how far they are caused by permanent changes in the relative standings of individuals in the income distribution (e.g. a change in the return to certain skills caused by technical progress) or by changes in the frequency of short-lived events (e.g. temporary layoffs), as well as the availability to individuals of specific insurance and other mechanisms to mitigate unexpected events.
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Elizabeth Breeze and Meena Kumari
This presentation provides an introduction to the ELSA survey.
Alissa Goodman, Greg Kaplan and Ian Walker
This paper examines the socio-economic consequences of teenage motherhood for a cohort of British women born in 1970.
Alissa Goodman, Greg Kaplan and Ian Walker
This paper examines the socio-economic consequences of teenage motherhood for a cohort of British women born in 1970.
Robert Chote
In his 1956 book "The Future of Socialism", the Labour thinker Tony Crosland famously argued:The essential thing is that every citizen should have an equal chance - that is his democratic right.
This report sets out what has happened to income and expenditure inequality in the 1990s and early 2000s, comparing the changes to previous decades. Although income is very often used for assessing living standards in this country, spending is often more informative, because many people can choose to borrow, save or run down their savings at any given time, in order to adjust their standard of living.
Michael B. Coelli, David A. Green and William P. Warburton
We examine the impact of high school graduation on the probability individuals from welfare
Tom Clark and Andrew Leicester
Microsimulation methods are used to identify the contribution of tax and benefit reforms to the significant growth in UK income inequality since 1979.
Orazio Attanasio, Luiz Carlos Gomez, Ana Gomez and Marcos Vera-Hernandez
In this paper we study the determinants of child anthropometrics on a sample of poor Colombianchildren living in small municipalities.
Official figures released on 30th March show that the government is probably on course to meet its target to cut child poverty by a quarter by 2004/5.
This Briefing Note assesses the likelihood that the government will meet its child poverty target in 2004–05 in the light of decisions made in Pre-Budget Report (PBR) 2003. It updates the analysis presented in What Do the Child Poverty Targets Mean for the Child Tax Credit? An Update, IFS Briefing Note 41, which was written before PBR 2003. We agree with the assessment in PBR 2003 that the government should comfortably meet its target measuring incomes before housing costs (BHC). It also concludes that the government is on course to just hit its target measuring incomes after housing costs (AHC).
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   Research told policymakers that, despite greater expenditure on health care, Americans are less healthy than their English counterparts.
IFS researchers have monitored the extent to which some households experience higher rates of inflation than others.
The IFS has made valuable contributions to the debate on VAT and its impact on the poor.
The IFS played a key role in the debate about who the tax and benefit changes in recent ‘Emergency Budget’ hit hardest.
IFS analysis forms an important input into the public debate about child and pensioner poverty and what policies are best suited to tackle these.
IFS evaluated the Pathways to Work programme. This work proved key to the policy debate about how to get disability benefit claimants in work.
IFS researchers played an important role in the analysis underlying the findings of the National Equality Panel set up by the Labour Government.
Extensive research on inequality allowed us to develop an online model where users can plot their position in the income distribution.
IFS develops data on food prices and nutrition to build capacity for policy-relevant social science research.
In a tough economic climate IFS looks at how households are able to cope.
An IFS economist advised a “Citizens Jury†on the welfare system, including basic facts and important issues about its purpose and structure.
IFS researchers develop a model of the Mexican tax system that will be used by the Mexican Government analysts.
IFS researchers and the World Bank plan to develop capacity and tools in developing countries for the comprehensive analysis of tax reforms
IFS researchers have investigated whether it is possible to measure the distributional impact of changes to spending on public services.
IFS researchers have investigated the relative merits of government policies designed to protect elderly households from the coldest winters.
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