Authors
Mike Brewer
CPP Co-Director
Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.
Research Associate University of Pennsylvania
Andrew is a Research Associate at the IFS and an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Research Fellow DIW Berlin
Head of department of Public Economics at DIW Berlin and Professor of Public Economics at Freie Universität Berlin.
Journal article details
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02261.x
- Publisher
- Wiley Blackwell
- Issue
- March 2009
Suggested citation
Blundell, R et al. (2009). 'Optimal income taxation of lone mothers: an empirical comparison of the UK and Germany' (2009)
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