David Phillips

This Briefing Note gives details of the changes to taxes, benefits and tax credits directly affecting households, and the total distributional impact of measures announced in PBR 2008.

As part of a report produced by Barnardo's, we modelled three reforms to the tax credit system.

This project analyses the findings from a series of "public goods" games that were conducted in the spring and winter of 2006 in 103 municipalities in rural and urban Colombia.

In this Commentary, we assess the changes to average incomes, inequality and poverty that have occurred under the first 10 years of the Labour government.

In this paper we provide an overview of the literature relating labour supply to taxes and welfare benefits with a focus on presenting the empirical consensus.

This report examines the potential of encouraging lone parents to work in jobs of fewer than 16 hours.

This report examines the potential of encouraging lone parents to work in jobs of fewer than 16 hours.

How do taxes affect people's work decisions? This article investigates and looks at the effect of a flagship government policy.

An Edepo working paper.

This report provides a description and quantitative analysis of the financial support for children that families in Northern Ireland (NI) receive from the government compared with the rest of the United Kingdom, and of how this has changed since 1997.