Reports

How much does US-based R&D benefit other countries and through what mechanisms?

This Paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two issues neglected in the existing literature the role of multinationals in service sectors and the importance of R&D activity conducted by foreign multinationals.

How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that there is heterogeneity across industries - incumbents in technologically advanced industries react positively to entry, but not in laggard industries.

This paper investigates the determinants of vertical integration.

This document reviews a number of empirical methodologies available to answering policy questions about the relationship between income and child outcomes.

This paper is concerned with the relationship between class size and the student outcome - participation in post-compulsory schooling.

This paper looks at the impact of Opportunity Bursaries on young adults who received payments in 2001-02 and 2002-03.

This paper looks at the impact of the Aimhigher:Excellence Challenge programme on pupils who have been exposed to it for one year.

We evaluate the effects of undergoing any early schooling (before the compulsory starting age of 5) and of pre-school on a cohort of British children born in 1958.

In this paper we try to answer the question of whether the replacement of FC by WFTC encouraged take-up.

This paper uses a structural model of labour supply and programme participation to evaluate the labour market impact of Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC).

We use a difference-in-differences methodology to evaluate the labour market impact of Working Families' Tax Credit.

This Briefing Note updates earlier work from the time of the last petrol crisis and considers the extent to which recent increases in prices can be attributed to government policy.

Colombia's civil conflict over the last 40 years has displaced many families and individuals from their villages of origin.

This Election Briefing Note compares Labour's proposed reforms to the system of higher education (HE) finance in England and the alternative proposals outlined by the Conservative Party in September 20042 and the Liberal Democrats in January and March 2005.

This Election Briefing Note aims to describe the key differences between the three main UK political parties on policies that might affect the ways in which individuals save and provide for the future, including the ways in which resources might be provided for retirement.

This Election Briefing Note shows how the tax and benefit reforms proposed by the three

This Election Briefing Note assesses the main parties' manifesto claims about living standards, poverty and taxation.

In this Election Briefing Note, we assess what has happened to living standards under Labour, setting out how average incomes, income inequality and poverty have changed since 1996-97. We compare these changes with what happened under previous governments, and highlight where there have been differences between Labour's first and second terms.

This note starts with a summary of tax reforms since 1997. This is followed by an assessment of the overall effect of these changes on the tax burden faced by businesses and on government revenues. The note concludes with a discussion of future trends in