Distributional analysis of tax and benefit changes

Understand this issue

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

Should the Chancellor raise capital gains tax?

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We explore why CGT reform is necessary and how changes could make the tax system fairer, more efficient and more growth-friendly.

9 October 2024

How can government reduce child poverty?

podcast

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

Policy analysis

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

IFS Green Budget 2024

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All the analysis from our IFS Green Budget 2024, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and in partnership with Citi.

10 October 2024

Pressures on public sector pay

report

Over a fifth of government spending goes on pay. We examine recruitment and retention challenges which mean that pressures could mount going forward.

27 September 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

Identifying network ties from panel data: Theory and an application to tax competition

journal article

Our identification and application show that the analysis of social interactions can be extended to economic realms where no network data exists.

9 September 2024