Spending Review 2025 will set detailed departmental budgets for most of this parliament. We examine the key choices facing ...

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

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

At the Spending Review on 11th June, the government will set out detailed spending plans for individual departments for the next three years. These will determine how much will be spent on the NHS, ...

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

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.

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 ...

In order to contain the growth of state pension spending in the face of an ageing population, successive governments have increased the state pension age – the age at which people can first claim ...

We measure product market concentration and business dynamism in the UK from 1997 to 2020 and study the relationship with productivity. Our results show that concentration in the UK is increasing ...

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 ...