Rising interest rates could put the government on track to miss its fiscal rules. What are the Chancellor’s options?

Our latest report on education spending in England shows how further education has faced some of the deepest funding cuts ...

If a recent rise in borrowing costs proved persistent, it will make it even harder for the Chancellor to continue to meet her ...

We study ten years of reforms in the United Kingdom which increased the ERA for women from 60 to 66.

A government with a big majority should have had the political will to do more than just set up another review.

Lars Nesheim is a Professor of Economics at UCL and Co-Director of the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap). After obtaining his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2001, he worked for ...

The IFS created the Tax Law Review Committee (TLRC) in 1994. The TLRC’s remit is to keep under review the state and operation of tax law in the UK. The TLRC asks in particular whether aspects of the ...

David is an Associate Director and helps lead two main areas of research at the Institute. First is work on devolved and local government finance, with a particular focus on the distribution of ...

The launch of 2024/25 IFS Annual Report on Education Spending in England, funded by the Nuffield Foundation This annual report contains our latest estimates of spending per pupil and resource ...

We study ten years of reforms in the United Kingdom which increased the ERA for women from 60 to 66. In UK data, I document the prevalence of misbeliefs regarding the State Pension eligibility age ...

We study ten years of reforms in the United Kingdom which increased the ERA for women from 60 to 66.

<p>France’s failed budget highlights fundamental challenges with public debt, slow growth, and the need for significant reforms.</p> ...