Taxes and benefits

This paper updates previous estimates of the impact of the programme on the GCSE marks and reported expected school leaving ages, among year 11 pupils.

Against a background of falling and low fertility, this paper presents an analysis of trends in fertility in the UK across cohorts born between 1935 and 1975.

This paper presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on Italian firms' productivity with the goal of understanding the roots of their poor performance.

Choosing among a number of available treatments the most suitable for a given subject is an issue of everyday concern. A physician has to choose an appropriate drug treatment or medical treatment for a given patient, based on a number of observed covariates <i> X </i>?and prior experience.

This paper is a revised version of CWP01/06

This paper reviews various techniques for quantifying financial incentives to work, shows how financial work incentives have changed across the population since 1979, and estimates how much of these changes are due to changes in the tax and benefit system.

This report aims to illuminate the trade-off between work incentives and redistribution.

Two strategies that governments have to help people on low incomes - providing them with financial support directly, and encouraging them to earn more - generally conflict.

This paper was given as the IFS annual lecture in September 2006.

We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in East and West Germany in 1995 using a sample of social-security wage records for full-time workers.

This Briefing Note analyses the effects of four possible flat tax systems for the UK.