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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early education and childcare can have a critical impact both on helping children to develop and in supporting parents (especially mothers) to work. But childcare can also have a significant impact on ...

We are now down to the final two Conservative Party leadership contenders: Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss. On 5 September we will know which of the two is the next Conservative Party leader - and therefore ...

Ben Zaranko, Associate Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies said: "If the UK needs to spend more on defence on a structural and permanent basis, that is not something that can be sustainably ...