Deaton Review on inequality launched

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How to reduce child poverty: compare the policy options

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Use these charts to compare policies for reducing child poverty and to examine how child poverty rates have changed over time across different groups.

3 October 2024

How can government reduce child poverty?

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We're exploring why there's been an increase in child poverty since 2010 and options the government has to reduce this.

3 October 2024

Professor Sir Richard Blundell to give the Marshall Paley Lecture on inequalities

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Professor Sir Richard Blundell will give the lecture on the first phase of the IFS Deaton Review, recently published by Oxford University Press.

27 September 2024

Policy analysis

Impact of reforms on annual disposable household income, 2024–25 to 2029–30

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On top of inherited plans, personal tax and benefit measures will on average reduce incomes by £1,400 over this parliament. 

31 October 2024

Green Budget 2024: Full report

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The new Chancellor faces a difficult fiscal inheritance. Her choices on tax and spending at this first Budget could define the rest of the parliament.

10 October 2024

Average annual change in real household disposable income by parliament

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The forecast for the current parliament suggests that it will be the second worst on record for household income growth.

30 October 2024

Academic research

Health inequality and health types

working paper

We use k-means clustering, a machine learning technique, and Health and Retirement Study data to identify health types during middle and old age.

3 October 2024

Education and inequality: an international perspective

working paper

Using existing literatures and new empirical evidence, we address whether educational expansion is an effective tool for reducing inequality.

20 September 2024

Hours of work and the long-run effects of in-work transfers

journal article

We find that reforms incentivising full-time work can significantly boost incomes, including for poorer households, as well as enhance overall welfare

21 August 2024