Inequality

Measures of average inflation like the RPI cannot, by definition, capture the true cost-of-living increases faced by individual households. This report looks at the extent to which a range of households have had different experiences of inflation over the last 15 years.

Very little is known about how households hold their savings, if they have any at all. This study shows how the amount and nature of household saving and wealth vary across different household types.

The aim of this paper is to assess the importance of using micro-level data in the econometric analysis of consumer demand.

This paper considers the impact on households of imposing VAT on domestic energy, and the extent to which the social security system will safeguard poorer households against the additional tax burden.

Intertemporal consumption, durables and liquidity constraints: a cohort analysis

Aggregation and consumer behaviour: some recent results

This paper sets out to explore theoretically how a change in the distribution of disposable income affects the market demand for a good or service.

The purpose of this Commentary is to evaluate the merits of different methods of measuring low income, and to comment on the results of two main sets of UK low income statistics.

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.

The annual exercise of revising excise duties has become part of Budget Day tradition.

This commentary analyses three seperate studies which attempt to assess the extent of poverty in the UK and asks why these studies produced apparently different results.