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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

In her recent speech at the 2024 Labour Party conference, the new Chancellor Rachel Reeves promised that the fiscal event on 30 October will be a ‘Budget for investment’. She said that ‘growth is the ...

The ledgers of the public finances have rarely made for more dismal reading. Tax revenues are this year set to reach their highest level since the 1940s (and are forecast to rise further still).

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 ...

The government has today announced an ‘Energy Price Guarantee’, holding the cost of energy for a household with typical consumption at an annual level of £2,500 over the two years from October. It has ...

We are pleased to announce that our research on the effects of Sure Start on children’s outcomes has been awarded ONS' Impact of Analysis Award. From tax rises to new spending pressures, we break down ...