Reports

This paper uses mortgage data to construct a measure of terms on which households access to external finance, and relates it to consumption at both the aggregate and cohort levels.

This report assesses the impact of the EMA pilots on participation and attainment in post-compulsory education.

This draft report makes use of newly linked administrative data to better understand the determinants of participation in HE - and participation in high status universities - amongst those facing socio-economic disadvantage, those from poorly educated families and ethnic minorities.

We are interested in evaluating the impact of restrictive planning regulation on entry into the UK grocery retail industry.

The Green Budget 2008 looks at the options open to the Chancellor in his March Budget.

This Briefing Note provides an analysis of the characteristics of high-income individuals and how their incomes have evolved over time.

This project based on the ELSA data will explore social exclusion and dimensions of social isolation in people 50 years old and over with emphasis on people 80 years old and over.

This report looks at why the youngest children in each academic year performing more poorly, on average, than the older members of their cohort and what, if anything, should be done in light of these disparities.

This report looks at why the youngest children in each academic year performing more poorly, on average, than the older members of their cohort and what, if anything, should be done in light of these disparities.

This note sets out options for the Comprehensive Spending Review.

This report examines the potential of encouraging lone parents to work in jobs of fewer than 16 hours.

This report examines the potential of encouraging lone parents to work in jobs of fewer than 16 hours.

It is possible to employ either income or expenditure as the base for personal taxation.

This report presents findings from secondary analysis of the Families and Children Study.

We examine the 'home bias' of international knowledge spillovers as measured by the speed of patent citations.

This paper presents evidence on the fertility effect of welfare from a set of reforms that took place in the UK in 1999 and that substantially increased support for poorer families with children.

This document provides an overview of the current system of local government finance in the UK.

Recent falls in poverty amongst those aged 65 and over are unlikely to continue after 2007-08, even after the implementation of the proposals outlined in the Government's Pensions White Paper.