Reports

This report, in Spanish, evaluates the first wave of the survey, Familias en Acción.

This Commentary provides an update on trends in poverty and inequality in Great Britain, based on the latest official government statistics.

This notes looks at discrepancies in the numbers of lone parents claiming tax credits and relates this to the recent child poverty figures.

This Briefing Note compares five recent studies that have examined the labour market impact of the Working Families' Tax Credit and related reforms between 1999 and 2002.

In this paper we provide textual evidence on the sophistication of medieval deterrence strategies.

The main objective of this project was to measure the patterns of different forms of social exclusion among older people and to examine the key risk factors, or indicators, of social exclusion among older people.

How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms?

The Green Budget, produced in collaboration with Morgan Stanley, looks at the options for the Chancellor in his forthcoming Budget.

This report presents the findings of research into how and when differences in work behaviour between men and women develop, focusing on the evolution of the gender gaps immediately after childbirth and during the initial years of family development.

We study the prices of basic commodities that are relatively homogeneous in some rural communities in Colombia.

This study assesses whether the microfinance institution SEWA Bank, India, is meeting its objective of raising its members' income.

This report presents the final stage of the Employer Training Pilots impact study.

The purpose of this report is to examine the consistency and reliability of the activityhistory data collected in the FACS. Using data from the first five waves of the FACSand from the first thirteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) as acomparison survey, carefully matched samples have been analysed to calibrate thecompleteness and consistency of the activity history data collected in the FACS andto test whether the FACS generates labour market statistics similar to the comparisonsurvey.

In this report, we provide estimates of how the programme has influenced nutrition and health-related indicators for children in the short term, roughly one year after its implementation.

This IFS briefing note provides some background facts and comments related to the issues raised in an HM Treasury and DTI discussion document, and a final section summarises the discussion that took place at a round table organised by HMT, DTI and IFS.

This paper analyzes the macroeconomic effect of population aging on the aggregate demand for goods and services between 2000 and 2040.

This is the fourth and final report of the longitudinal evaluation of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) pilots which followed two cohorts of young people who completed Year 11 in the summers of 1999 and 2000.

The aim of this analysis was to establish whether self-reported disability in walking medium distances (a quarter of a mile) in an English ageing study (ELSA) was comparable to similar self-reports in the US (NHANES) studies.

This report provides new empirical evidence on the level and distribution of retirement saving in England.

In 2003, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) commissioned the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) to estimate a model of labour market transitions, in other words, of moves into and out of work (paid employment).