In this summary we look at the main proposed changes to income tax, mansion tax, other taxes, and benefits in turn, with a particular focus on Labour and the Conservatives. The main body of this document then examines most of the specific tax and benefit policies of Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in some detail.
This briefing note, which is part of IFS’s election analysis funded by the Nuffield Foundation, analyses the Conservative Party manifesto pledge to extend Right to Buy.
In this election briefing note we compare and contrast the fiscal plans laid out by the four political parties that are widely predicted to win the most seats in the forthcoming UK general election: the Conservatives, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party (SNP).
This report explores the link between reading skills at age 10 and a range of outcomes later in life, including employment status, earnings and self-reported health status. It also investigates whether reading skills have greater benefits for children growing up in poor families.
This report summary is drawn from IFS research that was carried out as part of a programme of work examining the outlook for poverty and living standards in older age.
This summary is based on a report from the IFS, which compares and contrasts the economic circumstances of individuals currently aged between their mid-30s and mid-70s.
This evaluation report, produced as part of the Oxfam Effectiveness Reviews Series 2013/14, was co-authored by Bet Caeyers of the IFS Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies.
This evaluation report, produced as part of the Oxfam Effectiveness Reviews Series 2013/14, was co-authored by Bet Caeyers of the IFS Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies.
This evaluation report, produced as part of the Oxfam Effectiveness Reviews Series 2013/14, was co-authored by Bet Caeyers of the IFS Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies.
This briefing note focuses on changes in schools spending in England over time, comparing these with other areas of education spending, and examines how reforms to school funding have affected different groups of schools.
This article was written for Coalition Economics, which is hosting a collection of contributions from leading economic experts, intended to provide critical but fair assessments of the economic policies pursued by the coalition government in the UK since May 2010.
IFS researchers made a small contribution to this report, prepared for the European Commission by a consortium of researchers led by IHS Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna.
This evaluation compares the education outcomes of Social Mobility Foundation (SMF) participants (collected by SMF via participant questionnaires) with outcomes for a group of pupils with similar observable characteristics (such as performance at secondary school and neighbourhood context), observed in administrative data. This report focuses on the education outcomes for four cohorts of participants with the SMF: the first cohort featured entered the programme in 2009 (referred to as the 2009 cohort), the second in 2010, the third in 2011 and the fourth in 2012.
This briefing note focuses on net spending by local authorities on public services. It uses data from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to delve into a number of questions about how local governments in England have responded to the reductions in their revenues.
Promoting the social inclusion of the extreme poor on a large scale in developing countries: what do we know?
This article was published in Spanish on the website of Foco Economico, a website featuring blog pieces on politics and economics, relating particularly to Latin America.
