Our initial response to the Scottish Government’s budget for 2025-26. David Phillips, an associate director and head of ...

How can the public sector do more with less? We explore productivity trends, government reform and lessons from private ...

Clara's interests lie in public and labour economics. She joined the Institute for Fiscal Studies in 2021 while completing her Master of Research in Economics. In 2023, she earned the three-years IFS ...

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 ...

Mårten Palme is an Associate Professor at Stockholm University, previously at the Stockholm School of Economics, and a Research Fellow at the IFS. He has done research on income inequality, earnings ...

Jonathan is an Assistant Professor and the Helen and O.N. Mitchell, Jr Faculty Fellow in Real Estate at the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University and a Research Associate at IFS and cemmap. His ...

This Unit brings together child poverty policy officials and analysts to take the Government’s child poverty strategy to its next stage of development. The role of the Unit is to: provide an ...

Young people at risk of getting involved in violence are those in most of need of therapeutic support, but most unlikely to receive it. The Your Choice programme aims to shift how such therapeutic ...

The government has today published a policy statement outlining its plans for local government funding in England.

Measuring how assortative matching differs between two economies is difficult, we show how the use of different measures can ...

Healthcare is the Scottish Government’s largest area of spending. The NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care budget is planned to be £20.6 billion this year, around one-third of the total Scottish ...