Reports

This paper investigates consumer expenditures of German households pre and post retirement.

This Briefing Note provides an update on trends in living standards, income inequality and poverty.

From April 2004, a set of Government policies designed to help lone parents into work have been piloted in various combinations in a number of Jobcentre Plus districts in Great Britain.

In this paper we look at the impact of resources on pupil outcomes by considering an English education policy initiative, Excellence in Cities.

We describe the trajectory of pension reform in the United Kingdom.

The IFS Green Budget, in collaboration with Morgan Stanley, looks at the Chancellor's options in his forthcoming March Budget.

We perform inference on the effect of a treatment on survival times in studies where the treatment assignment is not randomized and the assignment time is not known in advance.

In this paper, we analyse the consequences and determinants of cognitive and noncognitive (social) skills at age 11, using data for Great Britain from the National Child Development Survey (NCDS).

In this paper we study the impact of Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge using information contained in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) for individuals aged between 16 and 20.

This paper updates previous estimates of the impact of the programme on the GCSE marks and reported expected school leaving ages, among year 11 pupils.

Against a background of falling and low fertility, this paper presents an analysis of trends in fertility in the UK across cohorts born between 1935 and 1975.

We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class.

This report takes a broad overview of the UK environmental tax system as it exists in 2006.

We consider dynamic discrete choice models with heterogeneity in both the levels parameter and the state dependence parameter.

This report aims to illuminate the trade-off between work incentives and redistribution.