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.
18 March 2005
This article was published in The Financial Times on 17th March 2005.
17 March 2005
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15 March 2005
14 March 2005
4 March 2005
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).
4 March 2005
This lecture, for the IFS Public Economics Lectures series, focuses on why pensions and savings are an economic policy issue, the way in which policy maker's have responded to an ageing UK population and the pressures on the UK pensions system.
3 March 2005
We study noncooperative models with two agents and several voluntarily contributed public goods.
3 March 2005
In this paper we evaluate the impact of a major school reform, that took place in the 1950s in Sweden, on educational attainment and earnings.
1 March 2005
This paper proposes to answer this question by using a unique dataset from Norway.
1 March 2005
We analyze equilibria in hedonic economies and study conditions that lead to identification of structural preference parameters in hedonic economies with both additive and nonadditive marginal utility and marginal product functions.
1 March 2005
28 February 2005
28 February 2005
This paper is concerned with the extent to which household expenditure patterns are affected by Child Benefit.
28 February 2005
We use a range of uncertainty measures for individual UK companies to explore the relationship between uncertainty and firm-level investment behaviour.
25 February 2005
This lecture, for the IFS Public Economics Lectures series, focuses on the treatment of children in the UK tax system and outlines UK trends in support for children and in child poverty.
24 February 2005
21 February 2005