Reports

This report presents projections of relative and absolute income poverty among children and working-age adults in every year to 2016-17, and in 2020-21.

This is the first of two reports examining welfare reform and poverty in Northern Ireland.

This briefing note considers the effectiveness of the proposed minimum unit price of alcohol.

This report provides an overview of socio-economic indicators that can be used to define educational disadvantage.

This CAYT report discusses the strengths and limitations of several approaches to assessing the effect of education on productivity.

This is a response by the IFS Tax Law Review Committee to the draft provisions and consultation published on 11 December 2012 (The "GAAR Consultation")

This note looks at the relationship between reading skills and maths at age 10 with earnings in later life.

This report explores whether engagement in risky behaviour could be reduced by providing young people with information.

This report uses business data to document what happened to a variety of indicators of labour hoarding, as well as investment and training, over the course of the 2008–09 recession.

This Briefing Note discusses ways of improving the tax system.

This report attempts to quantify, as far as possible, the likely effects of the UK coalition government’s welfare reforms (excluding tax changes) on labour supply in Wales.

This is a reponse to the UK Government's consultation on defining a new 'multidimensional' measure of child poverty.

Contribution to the ESRC publication 'Re-igniting Growth'

NBER working paper No. 18750

As Chancellor George Osborne prepares for his keynote statement on fiscal policy and the economy the IFS Green Budget assesses some of the issues he will have to deal with.

In October last year, the government announced a significant change to its plan to localise Council Tax Benefit starting in April 2013. Why was such a significant change announced to a policy two years after it was first announced and less than six months before councils will have to implement it?

This article considers the phenomenon of income inequality.

They examine whether height in children causally affects a wide range of outcomes and use children's genetic variants as instrumental variables for child height. The results suggest that height is an important factor in human capital accumulation and show that being tall may not only confer advantage but also disadvantage.