A new IFS report released today, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Health Foundation, finds a range of evidence that mental health has worsened since the pandemic. This is consistent ...

The aim of the bill, as stated on the House of Commons Library website, is to “improve the safeguarding of children and to ...

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 ...

We find that most households save more for medical expenses than for bequests but that richer households and couples save ...

The Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), introduced in the UK in 1999, represented an ambitious attempt to boost post-16 education participation among disadvantaged youth. By providing weekly ...

On 26 March, Rachel Reeves will respond to updated economic and fiscal forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). One key question is whether those forecasts put the Chancellor on ...

The Spring Forecast on 26 March is supposed to be a non-event: Rachel Reeves has committed to holding just one fiscal event per year, in the autumn. But given economic developments since October's ...

Clara's interests lie in public and labour economics. She joined the Institute for Fiscal Studies in 2021 while completing her Master of Science 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 ...

Paul has been director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 2011. He is a columnist for The Times, and is a regular contributor to other broadcast and print media. He is a visiting professor in ...