Government finances and spending

This paper presents evidence on the fertility effect of welfare from a set of reforms that took place in the UK in 1999 and that substantially increased support for poorer families with children.

This document provides an overview of the current system of local government finance in the UK.

Recent falls in poverty amongst those aged 65 and over are unlikely to continue after 2007-08, even after the implementation of the proposals outlined in the Government's Pensions White Paper.

This report provides a description and quantitative analysis of the financial support for children that families in Northern Ireland (NI) receive from the government compared with the rest of the United Kingdom, and of how this has changed since 1997.

This paper presents a tour of welfare reform in the UK since the last change of government, summarising the most important changes in active labour market policies, and in measures intended to strengthen financial incentives to work.

This Briefing Note provides an update on trends in living standards, income inequality and poverty.

This paper analyses the efficiency of Spanish local governments using non-convex frontier methods.

We derive distributional effects for a non-cooperative alternative to the unitary model of household behaviour.