We extend the collective model of household behavior to allow for the existence of public consumption.
1 December 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
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.
5 February 2004
We extend the collective model of household behavior to allow for the existence of public consumption.
1 May 2002
A survey of the main issues involved in using equivalence scales to estimate the costs of children for policy purposes: the authors estimate a range of scales for the UK and examine the impact of varying scales on official statistics.
1 January 1993
In the year prior to the pandemic, nearly half of children in lone-parent families were in relative poverty – defined as having an income of less than 60% of median incomes adjusted for household size.
4 July 2022
17 May 2022
This presentation was delivered at "Improving productivity in developing countries: identifying bottlenecks and obstacles to productive investments and technology adoption" on 8 and 9 July 2015.
11 August 2015
The authors consider the life-cycle problem of a household that in each period decides how much to consume and how to allocate spouses’ time to work, leisure, and childcare.
23 March 2015
This report examines the prospects for poverty rates and income for different family types up to the year 2015.
4 January 2012
19 July 2011
23 November 2010
The issue of marriage and family life looks set to be a key election battleground. In recent weeks, the Conservative Party's policy on supporting marriage in the tax system has been under the spotlight. A Green Paper on family policy is due to be released by the Government next week. Recently-published IFS analysis, and two new projects funded by the Nuffield Foundation, hope to shed light on some of these issues.
22 January 2010
Adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS and other diseases is posited to affect children through a number of pathways.On top of health and education outcomes, adult mortality can have significant effects on children by influencing demographic outcomes including the timing of marriage. This paper examines marriage outcomes for a sample of children interviewed in Tanzania in the early 1990s and re-interviewed in 2004.
23 December 2008
This paper investigates how and when differences in work behaviour between men and women develop, focusing on the evolution of the gender gaps over the period of family development.
11 December 2006
30 October 2023
1 August 2023
This report provides new estimates of total spending by the government on children in England, including benefits, education spending,services for vulnerable children and healthcare. In the most recent year of data (2017–18), total spending was over £120 billion or over £10,000 per child under 18.
12 June 2018
Since 2007 it has not been permitted to advertise food and drink that is high in fat, salt or sugar during children's television programmes. Evidence from Ofcom suggests that in 2016 children spent 64% of their viewing time watching programmes outside children’s programming. Recent discussion around the possibility of a second wave of the Government’s childhood obesity strategy has included calls from health campaigners and leaders of all the main opposition parties to extend current restrictions on when food and drink products that are high in fat, salt or sugar can be advertised to cover all pre-watershed advertising.
31 May 2018
In-work poverty among families with children
19 July 2017