Governments frequently rely on multiple actors to deliver technology-adoption policies at scale, yet we find that information ...

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

At this in-person policy conference, researchers will present new evidence on the scale and causes of regional inequalities.

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

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

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

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

The government has published the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement for 2025–26, setting out funding allocations for English councils next year. This confirms an important shift in grant ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spring heralds the arrival of new tax regimes. While the Chancellor’s Budget did not in the end contain any cuts to the headline rate of inheritance tax, it did introduce a new inheritance tax relief.