What are IFS experts looking out for in 2026? We discuss rising unemployment, benefit reforms, and whether new technologies ...

This presentation 'The economic, fiscal and funding outlook' was given by David Phillips and Kate Ogden at the Local ...

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 ...

How does student finance work for those who started university from 2012 onwards? Universities charge tuition fees for their courses. These are capped at £9,250 per year for home students, with fees ...

Job vacancies are an early indicator of economic activity. When a firm’s demand for labour increases, it may post new vacancies some time before these vacancies are actually filled; conversely, when ...

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 ...