The chancellor has pledged an extra £1.2 billion annually for FE by 2028-29. But will this be enough to reverse a decade of ...

This year's RES Conference features a special session on the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities with key IFS contributors to ...

Which public services are the relative winners and losers from Rachel Reeves’ multi-year 2025 Spending Review?

New childcare entitlements have proven popular – meaning spending from 2026 onwards could be £1 billion higher than ...

The next few years are going to be very tight for school budgets and forecasting anything more than a real-terms freeze is ...

The Prime Minister and Chancellor announced last week that the income threshold below which pensioners will be eligible for the winter fuel payment (WFP) will rise, so that more pensioners will be ...

As you will have noticed, Wednesday is spending review day. We will be bombarded with all sorts of claims and counter claims. Here’s a guide to what to look out for. First, despite appearances and ...

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 ...

Giulio is an IFS Research Associate and a professor in the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London. His main research fields are theoretical labour economics and ...