Reports

We look at the effects of the reforms introduced since 1997 and at the proposals of the parties in this area.

In this note we look at policy relating to productivity since 1997 and at the parties' policies in this area.

This note looks at the changes in employment and Labour's policies since 1997 and review the proposals of the three main parties in this area.

This Briefing Note assesses the government's management of the public finances since 1997, judged against the rules it set itself to constrain public sector borrowing and debt, and against the performance of other industrial countries over the same period. It then discusses how the public finances might evolve given the tax and spending policies of the three main parties, as well as their proposals to reform the framework in which the public finances are managed.

As in previous general elections, the appropriate size of the state is a key issue. This Briefing Note describes the trends in public spending since Labour came to office in 1997 and compares them with those seen previously in the UK and in other OCED countries.

This Briefing Note examines the evolution of the tax burden over the last 50 years. It then looks at the proposals in the parties' manifestos.

This note looks at the distributional impact of changes to the tax and benefit system since 1997.

In this paper we use the new Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) to look at ethnic differences in outcomes of children at birth.

In this report we estimate the impact on school enrolment of a large welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Acción.

This Commentary provides an update on trends in poverty and inequality in Great Britain for 2005.

This commentary compares the university funding of Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. These policies have important implications for students, graduates, universities and taxpayers.

This note sets out what we learn about the relationship between family income and material deprivation from a panel of lone parents constructed from 5 waves of the Family and Children Survey (FACS).

This paper is concerned with the extent to which household expenditure patterns are affected by Child Benefit.

We use a range of uncertainty measures for individual UK companies to explore the relationship between uncertainty and firm-level investment behaviour.

We develop and test a model on the effects of spatial housing price risk on housing choice.

Russia dramatically reduced its higher rates of personal income tax (PIT) in 2001 establishing a single marginal rate at the low level of 13 percent.

We estimate the effect of pension reforms on households expectations of retirement outcomes and private wealth accumulation decisions exploiting a decade of Italian pension reforms as a source of exogenous variation in expected pension wealth.

The IFS Green Budget 2005 examines the options open to the Chancellor in his forthcoming Budget.

In this Briefing Note, we will focus on the programme Familias en Acción, the conditional cash-transfer programme implemented by the Colombian government from 2001/02.

In this paper we investigate recent trends in childcare use amongst families in Great Britain, and provide a thorough comparison of the different household survey and administrative datasets.