This report studies the impact of Sure Start, which supported families of under-5s, on children’s behaviour, youth offending ...

We show that how countries disburse tax credits matters for economic incidence by exploiting reform to the disbursement of ...

The Frisch labor supply elasticity plays a key role in many economic policy debates, but its magnitude remains controversial.

A panel of scientific experts is set to provide education policy makers with advice on strategic and emerging issues.

The budget coming up in a few weeks will be one of the big moments for Labour to set out their policy agenda.

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 ...

Richard is a Co- Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and a Senior Research Fellow at IFS. He holds the David Ricardo Chair of Political Economy at ...

The Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson, has announced he will step down in summer 2025 to become Provost of Queen’s College, Oxford. The IFS would like to express its huge ...

The Police National Computer database records information about offending behaviour for people over age 10 (the age of criminal responsibility). The data contains information about offences committed ...

The new Chancellor faces a difficult fiscal inheritance. Her choices on tax and spending at this first Budget could define the rest of the parliament. Life expectancy gaps between gender and income ...