Latest Projects
Meeting Scotland’s child poverty reduction targets
Incomes, Work & Poverty,Economic Analysis & Modelling
20 February 2024
This project looks at the relative effectiveness of childcare, employability programmes and social security levers in achieving the child poverty reduction targets
Housing costs and child poverty
Housing & Homelessness,Incomes, Work & Poverty,Economic Analysis & Modelling
20 February 2024
This project utilise the IPPR tax-benefit model to model the effects, at a household level, of changes to housing policy, accounting for the complexities in the benefit system.
Exploring the frontiers of microsimulation
Incomes, Work & Poverty,Economic Analysis & Modelling
20 February 2024
Tax-benefit microsimulation modelling is a well-established technique used in many countries around the world for estimating the fiscal, distributional and poverty effects of policy change in the tax and benefit system
Providing advice on building a dynamic microsimulation modelling for non-communicable diseases
Incomes, Work & Poverty,Economic Analysis & Modelling
20 February 2024
The Health Foundation REAL Centre is working with the University of Liverpool to build a dynamic microsimulation model of non-communicable diseases to allow analysis of future demand for healthcare.
Assessing the impact on poverty of changes to the Local Housing Allowance
Incomes, Work & Poverty,Economic Analysis & Modelling
20 February 2024
This will provide the first definitive view of the impact that the changes to the Local Housing Allowance over the past decade have had on poverty
Work incentives in the tax and benefit system
Incomes, Work & Poverty,Economic Analysis & Modelling
20 February 2024
This project will identify where, and why, work incentives remain poor for so many people by conducting a comprehensive study of work incentives throughout the tax and benefit system