Taxes and benefits

This is the first wave evaluation report of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme.

This is the baseline evaluation report of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme.

This paper analyses optimal income taxation as a trade-off between the incentive effects of increased uncertainty and the welfare benefits of social insurance.

This paper considers the identification of the effect of tobacco on mortality.

We analyse a puzzle in the UK corporation tax: by both historic and international standards corporation tax revenues have been high while the statutory rate has been low.

This is the third report of the longitudinal quantitative evaluation of Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) pilots and the first since the government announced that EMA is to be rolled out nationally from 2004.

This paper analyses the relationship between female labour market participation and mortgage commitments in life-cycle set up. In particular it examines whether a mortgage qualification constraint has any effect on female labour market participation.

this paper uses a structural model of labour supply and programme participation to show the impact of a reform to in-work support (Working Families Tax Credit) on both labour supply and programme participation (or take-up).

This paper summarises the economic literature on modelling take-up, with a focus on income-related or work-related benefits or tax credits.

We survey microeconometric research on investment and emplyment that has used panel data on individual firms or plants.

Many people in the UK do not claim benefits to which they seem to be entitled. Amongst those of working-age, take-up rates for Family Credit.

This paper attempts to uncover the effects of a welfare-to-work programme, that acts as a wage subsidy, on wage growth by exploiting an expansion to this welfare programme in the UK.