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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

This was a big Budget, but not in the way people were necessarily expecting. Yes, there was a big tax rise: today’s £26 billion isn’t far short of last year’s £32 billion. Yes, there was an increase ...

The level of the state pension is increased each April in line with the ‘triple lock’: the highest of CPI inflation, average earnings growth or 2.5%. The September CPI inflation figure, which feeds ...

The system of support for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in England is broken. Costs are spiralling, the quality of provision is patchy, and almost everyone involved – schools, ...