This report explores options for incorporating administrative records on graduate earnings into the OfS’ regulation of higher ...

Updated forecasts for tax revenues and benefit spending imply a more challenging funding outlook for the Scottish Government.

This is no doubt why the existing policy tied WFP eligibility to PC – those households getting PC are known to have low ...

The 'Be the Chancellor' tool, built by IFS researchers in partnership with Nesta, illustrates key choices and fiscal ...

The Government has today announced a series of public sector pay awards for those covered by the Pay Review Body process.

The motherhood penalty is well-documented, but what happens at the other end of the reproductive spectrum? Menopause—a transition often marked by debilitating physical and psychological symptoms—also ...

Regression, matching, control function and instrumental variables methods for recovering the impact of education on individual earnings are reviewed for single treatment and sequential multiple ...

Youth clubs are community-based after-school programmes, typically offered free of charge to teenagers in underprivileged neighbourhoods. I provide the first causal estimates of their effects on ...

Sure Start was the first large government initiative to provide area-based holistic support to families with children under the age of 5 in England. It did so through a network of ‘one-stop shops’, ...

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 ...

We show that remaining in work has significant positive causal effects on the average cognition and physical mobility of older women in England.

At the end of February, the government announced the most significant reform to the student loans system in England since at least 2012. The central planks of the reform are a lower earnings threshold ...