Reports

News analysis published in Tax Notes International, 5 November, 2012

We propose an alternative (“dual regression”) to the quantile regression process for the global estimation of conditional distribution functions under minimal assumptions.

This report provides a new assessment of the proportion of people aged between 50 and the State Pension Age (SPA) who are at risk of having inadequate resources in retirement and considers the characteristics associated with the risk of such inadequacy.

This is a response to the UK Government's consultation on the possible introduction of a General Anti-Abuse Rule in June 2012.

This paper looks at lifetime inequality to address two main questions: How well does a modern tax system, based on annual information, target lifetime inequality? and What aspects of the transfer system are most progressive from a lifetime perspective?

In this paper, a dynamic model is used to show how a lifecycle perspective alters our impression of the effect of the tax and benefit system on female work incentives.

This briefing note summarises a project that took a life-cycle perspective to understand how taxes and benefits affect incentives to work and earn more, and the way in which they redistribute income.

This report examines cuts made to expenditure in Wales and considers some scenarios for how much local authorities may have to spend in the period up to 2020-1.

This report discusses why the government might want to intervene to reduce obesity, and what policy instruments are available.

This paper examines the ill-health retirement of police officers in the forces of England and Wales between 2002-03 and 2009-10. Published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Report published by the Economic and Social Research Institute

This research report presents the findings from a study that investigated the extent of parental worklessness in families with young and teenage children, and determined how parental worklessness impacts on children’s cognitive ability, education attainment, behaviours, attitude to school, academic aspirations and experience of the transition from school to work.

This research examines the changing structure of the UK jobs market in tandem with the effects of the tax and benefit system.

This working paper uses a randomised controlled trial (RCT) to analyse the impact of microcredit on poverty reduction in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This report draws on the Mirrlees Review of efficient taxation to identify key reforms that could help to ease the squeeze on living standards by making the UK tax and benefit systems both more efficient and fair.

These evaluation reports analyse the impact, delivery and value for money of a two-year pilot that tested two different approaches to extending access to free school meals (FSM).

This commentary gives a detailed examination of the behavioural insights for tax and benefit policy.

This report, funded by the Nuffield Trust, examines what can be expected once the current unprecedented period of broadly flat NHS funding in real terms ends in 2014-15.

This report presents the findings of a survey of local authorities, examining preparations for Raising the Participation Age, conducted by NatCen Social Research on behalf of the Department for Education.

Control Function and Related Methods: Linear Models Jeff Wooldridge Michigan State University Programme Evaluation for Policy Analysis Institute for Fiscal Studies June 2012