My book Left Behind drew on recent academic advances that analyse why the life chances of young people in the same country ...

This paper investigates how the link between opportunity and childhood varies in England.

We study how financial markets and, in particular, changes in the price of and access to capital, in shape UK regional growth ...

In this paper, we propose a user-friendly estimator to implement the method of difference-in-differences with ordinal ...

We study how the timing of economic support measures during the COVID-19 pandemic affected household financial distress ...

The number of people waiting for NHS treatment in England has risen rapidly during the Covid-19 pandemic, with 7.2 million incomplete treatment pathways in December 2022. The graph below shows the ...

This was another big Budget. The Treasury’s scorecard contained seventy-five separate new measures. There were meaningful increases in tax, spending, and borrowing. I’ll leave my colleagues to walk ...

Paul Johnson, IFS Director, said: “The Liberal Democrats want to top up existing spending plans so that the state remains at around its current size, relative to national income - and hence ...

We are in the midst of major changes to local government funding – both its level and the system for raising and distributing it. This note brings together some of the key findings of our research on ...

Rachel Reeves made a number of big choices in her first Budget. She chose to increase borrowing in order to increase investment spending – or at least to stop it falling as a fraction of national ...

At the 2023 Spring Budget, then-Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the largest-ever expansion of publicly funded childcare entitlements, offering new entitlements for working families with children aged ...

Responding to Nigel Farage's speech earlier today, IFS Deputy Director Helen Miller said: 'The broad thrust of Nigel Farage’s speech echoes Reform UK’s manifesto: very large tax cuts to be paid for ...