Average UK household income has almost doubled in real terms over the past forty years. We document and analyse the factors that have contributed to this growth.
Joint publication with A.Q. Khan, S. Gulzar, D. Hollywood, H. Iqbal, and A. A. Lodhi, prepared for and presented to DfID Pakistan and the Livestock Department, Government of Punjab, Pakistan
The FINISH project will test whether the use of microfinance for rural sanitation can be implemented at scale, in order to: accelerate access by the poor to demand-led sanitation, resulting in health, economic, and social impact; and greater sustainability in sanitation service delivery.
We use detailed data recording off-licence purchases to assess which types of alcohol products, retailers and consumers would be most affected by reforms.
In this Briefing Note, we describe the options for a national funding formula for schools and examine how different options would affect the finances of different schools or areas of the country.
This report explores what types of firm engage with the apprenticeship programme and if there are characteristics that make them more or less likely to offer apprenticeships.
The aim of this report is to identify the effect of month of birth on a range of key skills and behaviours amongst young people growing up in England today.
This study investigated the hypothesis that offering vocational options in Year 10 can help improve levels of educational engagement and subsequent outcomes among young people disengaged from education.
The analyses summarised here explore the educational outcomes of disengaged young people from a nationally representative cohort who reported taking vocational courses in Year 10 compared to similarly disengaged young people who did not.
The inflation figures for September 2011 released this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are important, because they affect how the tax and benefit system will look in 2012-13.
This Commentary presents forecasts of relative and absolute income poverty in the UK among children and working-age adults for each year between 2010-11 and 2015-16, and for 2020-21.
This report analyses the impact that ERA has had on a variety of outcomes experienced by working members of the New Deal for Lone Parents and Working Tax Credit target groups, as well as on the tax year earnings of working members of the New Deal 25 plus target group.
