Agar is a Professor of Economics at the University of Venice and a Research Fellow of the IFS. She has investigated the behaviour of individuals and household both in the area of consumption and ...

Young people at risk of getting involved in violence are those in most of need of therapeutic support, but most unlikely to receive it. The Your Choice programme aims to shift how such therapeutic ...

We study the impacts of high-quality, center-based early childhood education on low income children in Colombia, tracking ...

We use k-means clustering, a machine learning technique, and Health and Retirement Study data to identify health types during ...

We're exploring why there's been an increase in child poverty since 2010 and options the government has to reduce child poverty.

The poverty rate is a useful summary measure of how low-income families are faring, comparing their total household income with a specified poverty line. For example, a couple with no children would ...

Reversing the two-child limit would be a quick and cost-effective fix for bringing large numbers of children above the poverty line. But the benefit cap would wipe out the gains for some children in ...

4.3 million children (30%) in the UK now live in relative poverty. The new government has made reducing child poverty one of its key policy objectives, and has launched a Child Poverty Taskforce to ...

Lars Nesheim is a Professor of Economics at UCL and Co-Director of the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap). After obtaining his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2001, he worked for ...