Personal tax and benefit changes

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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?

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

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

announcement

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

320,000 people pushed into poverty because of mortgage interest rate rises

press release

"Poverty statistics that hide the real scale of increases risk policymakers missing what is truly happening to poverty."

25 July 2024

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2024

report

How do rising mortgage rates and differential inflation affect incomes and poverty? How have incomes and poverty changed for pensioners?

25 July 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

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