Taxes and benefits

This paper aims to review the techniques and methods which have been

The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour.

This study forecasts the prospects for child poverty in 2010/11 and 2020/21 under current government policies, and illustrates the impact of various tax and benefit policies that could be implemented in 2010 and 2020.

This reports looks at pilots for reforms to incapacity benefit.

This is the report from the second phase of a project funded by HM Treasury, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Inland Revenue, and the Economic and Research Social Council under the broad heading Labour Supply Estimation.

This is the bibliography for three reports on labour supply estimation, developed by IFS for HMT and DWP.

This briefing note presents results from an application of the IFS dynamic labour supply model developed for the HMT and the DWP.

This document presents details of the estimation and results from the IFS model of labour market transitions.

We estimate the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on subsequent employment by nonparametric instrumental variables and matching estimators.

We summarise what economic theory predicts about how retirement savings decisions are affected by marginal withdrawal rates created by the tax, tax credit and benefit system, and by the information individuals are provided with.

We analyze the impact of product market competition on unemployment and wages, and how this depends on labour market institutions.

This notes looks at discrepancies in the numbers of lone parents claiming tax credits and relates this to the recent child poverty figures.

This Briefing Note compares five recent studies that have examined the labour market impact of the Working Families' Tax Credit and related reforms between 1999 and 2002.

This article looks and income and substitution effects and demand for nursery education.

This paper develops a new approach to study how electoral bias in favor of one party due to the pattern of districting affects policy choice.

This report presents the findings of research into how and when differences in work behaviour between men and women develop, focusing on the evolution of the gender gaps immediately after childbirth and during the initial years of family development.

This research is part of a large evaluation effort, undertaken by a consortium formed by IFS, Econometria and SEI, which has considered the effects of Familias en Acción on a variety of outcomes one year after its implementation.

This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal labor and firm performance.

This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the

The purpose of this report is to examine the consistency and reliability of the activityhistory data collected in the FACS. Using data from the first five waves of the FACSand from the first thirteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) as acomparison survey, carefully matched samples have been analysed to calibrate thecompleteness and consistency of the activity history data collected in the FACS andto test whether the FACS generates labour market statistics similar to the comparisonsurvey.