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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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This online event looked at the case for reforming capital gains tax and what the government could do in the upcoming budget.
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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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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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Public childcare, labor market outcomes of caregivers, and child development: experimental evidence from Brazil

Working Paper

This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their caregivers.

8 November 2022

Firms as tax collectors

Working Paper

We show that delegating tax collection to large firms can help build tax capacity in weak-enforcement settings.

31 October 2022

Gender norms, violence and adolescent girls’ trajectories: Evidence from India

Comment

Changing the attitudes and behaviours of those enforcing restrictive societal norms is critical for meaningful improvements in women’s wellbeing.

24 October 2022

Social incentives, delivery agents and the effectiveness of development interventions

Journal article

We study the use of the local delivery model for development interventions in the context of a standard agricultural extension intervention in Uganda.

6 October 2022

Fiscal policy and income inequality: the role of taxes and social spending

Report

This report surveys the available evidence on the combined impact of taxes and social spending on within-country income inequality and poverty.

30 September 2022

Gender norms, violence and adolescent girls’ trajectories: evidence from a field experiment in India

Working Paper

We compare the effectiveness of targeting only adolescent girls with an approach that engages with enforcers of gender norms in the wider community.

26 September 2022

Parental Investments and Intra-household Inequality in Child Human Capital: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Working Paper

I study the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants.

21 July 2022

When nature calls back: Sustaining behavioral change in rural Pakistan

Journal article

We implement a randomized controlled trial and a qualitative study to assess whether, and if so how, behavioral change can be sustained.

16 July 2022

Can white elephants kill? Unintended consequences of infrastructure development

Working Paper

I provide evidence of the severe social costs imposed by infrastructure projects that are being implemented in the context of sewerage in Peru.

12 July 2022

In-kind transfers as insurance

Working Paper

Using calorie shortfalls as a marginal utility proxy, we find that in-kind transfers are preferred for low-income Indian households.

29 June 2022

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.

8 June 2022

The effect of electronic transactions on tax compliance: Evidence from West Bengal

Report

A one-off demonetisation led to a shift to electronic payments, which in turn increased tax compliance

26 April 2022

Public service delivery and free riding: 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.

14 April 2022

Does going cashless make you tax-rich? Evidence from India’s demonetisation

Report

Leveraging the 2016 demonetisation in India, this article shows that areas that were more impacted by the policy, experienced faster growth in electronic payments and, in turn, average sales reported to the tax authority increased.

31 March 2022