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Taxes and benefits

Our work analyses impacts on inequality, poverty, the public finances, and the behaviour of workers, firms and consumers, and considers how their design could be improved. Its focus ranges from the taxation of sugary drinks to revenue-raising measures in low and middle income countries to ongoing UK benefit reforms.

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Behavioural economics and tax reform

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There is growing interest in how behavioural economics can be used effectively by policymakers. This observation considers some of the broad implications of behavioural insights for tax and benefit policy, drawing on new IFS research which explores the issues for particular aspects of policy in this area.

19 July 2012

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Microeconometric Policy Evaluation

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We review popular evaluation methods in policy analysis, showing the relationship between social experiments (randomised control trials), matching methods, instrumental variables, and control functions.

This presentation was delivered as part of the PEPA contribution to the 2012 ESRC Research Methods Festival.

5 July 2012

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The impacts of food taxes

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This presentations was given at the National Heart Forum meeting on 'What is the role of food taxes?' on 29 June 2012 in London.

29 June 2012

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Pensioners and the tax and benefit system

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This paper is intended to aid discussion about ways in which the proposals produced by the Dilnot Commission on the Funding of Care and Support could be funded.

26 June 2012