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How to reduce child poverty: compare the policy options
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Use these charts to compare policies for reducing child poverty and to examine how child poverty rates have changed over time across different groups.
3 October 2024
How can government reduce child poverty?
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We're exploring why there's been an increase in child poverty since 2010 and options the government has to reduce this.
3 October 2024
Are people saving enough into their pensions?
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Automatic enrolment has been successful in getting more people into workplace pensions, but are they saving enough?
20 September 2024
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Should the government increase capital gains tax?
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This online event looked at the case for reforming capital gains tax and what the government could do in the upcoming budget.
IFS Green Budget 2024
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The IFS Green Budget will assess the state of the UK economy and the new government’s fiscal position ahead of their first Budget.
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event 23 October 2024
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International development

Our work on international development studies labour markets, infrastructure, health and education systems and public finances in low and middle income countries. We use field experiments, survey and administrative data and theory to examine the effects of policies on individuals and firms as well as on aggregate outcomes.

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The effect of center-based early education on disadvantaged children’s developmental trajectories: experimental evidence from Colombia

Working Paper

We study the impacts of high-quality, center-based early childhood education on low income children in Colombia, tracking participants over five years

4 October 2024

Seclusion and women's time: Descriptive evidence from India

Working Paper

We use rich time-use data on where, and how, individuals spend their time to explore women’s seclusion in India.

17 September 2024

The state of gender inequality in Latin America

Comment

This column examines gender inequality in Latin America, and finds that employed women are over-represented in smaller firms and the informal sector.

6 August 2024

Evaluating pricing health insurance in lower-income countries: A field experiment in India

Working Paper

We conducted a large-scale, 4-year trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India’s first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY.

29 July 2024

Preschool quality and child development

Journal article Journal of Political Economy

Globally, preschool enrollment has surged, but its quality is often poor. We evaluate strategies to improve quality of public preschools in Colombia.

8 July 2024

Religious proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India

Journal article Journal of Health Economics

We investigate how religion concordance influences the effectiveness of preventive health campaigns.

1 June 2024

Targeting men, women or both to reduce child marriage

Working Paper

We conduct a cluster-randomized control trial of an edutainment intervention aimed at delaying marriage of adolescent children in rural Pakistan.

28 May 2024

Keeping the peace whilst getting your way: Information, persuasion and intimate partner violence

Working Paper

We study the effects on intimate partner violence (IPV) of new information received by men and women, relevant to a high-stakes joint decision.

17 May 2024

The unintended consequences of infrastructure development

Journal article

Focusing on the period from 2005 to 2015 in Peru, I investigate the social costs imposed by poor implementation of public infrastructure.

17 May 2024

Forced displacement, mental health, and child development: Evidence from Rohingya refugees

Working Paper

In this study, we conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) involving 3,500 Rohingya mother-child pairs in refugee camps in Bangladesh.

10 May 2024

Leveraging edutainment and social networks to foster interethnic harmony

Working Paper

Using a cluster-randomised field experiment, this paper investigates the effectiveness of educational entertainment in promoting interethnic harmony.

10 May 2024

The unintended consequences of infrastructure development

Working Paper

Focusing on the period from 2005 to 2015 in Peru, I investigate the social costs imposed by poor implementation of public infrastructure.

8 May 2024

Evaluating pricing health insurance in lower-income countries: A field experiment in India

Working Paper

We conducted a large-scale, 4-year trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India’s first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY.

14 March 2024

Three ways to improve the design of the UK’s overseas aid spending target

Comment

The UK spent £12.8 billion on aid in 2022. But the way the budget is managed can lead to perverse outcomes. There is definite room for improvement.

18 January 2024

Distributional analysis of Ghana’s tax system

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This report analyses the distributional impacts of Ghana’s direct and indirect tax systems using the GHATAX microsimulation model.

18 December 2023

Social proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India

Working Paper

We study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health behaviour campaigns.

7 December 2023

Public service delivery, exclusion and externalities: Theory and experimental evidence from India

Working Paper

This paper provides novel evidence on the trade-off between public service delivery and free riding in low- and middle-income countries.

15 November 2023

Mafia infiltrations in times of crisis: Evidence from the Covid-19 shock

Working Paper

We analyse the risk of mafia capture of firms operating in the legal economy and the relationship between firm performance and mafia infiltration.

9 October 2023

The Expert Factor: What is Britain’s place in the world?

Podcast

This week the Expert Factor team take a deep dive into Britain’s place in the world.

5 October 2023

Tax equity around the world: a discussion

Journal article

The article is a response to Gabriel Zucman's paper 'Globalisation, taxation and inequality'.

13 September 2023

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