We find that an increased likelihood of Medicaid eligibility reduces marriage rates, particularly among people with higher ...

Using quasi-experimental variation from austerity-related cuts, I provide the first causal estimates of youth clubs' effects ...

Teenagers affected by austerity-induced youth club closures performed 4% worse in exams at age 16 and became 14% more likely ...

After a post-pandemic fall-off, NHS hospital productivity has increased over the last year, with hospital activity growing ...

Following a bulge in claims, recent figures suggest new disability benefits may not pose as big a cost to the Scottish Budget ...

Tax and spending will increase by a huge 5% of national income this decade, but most of that increase occurred under the last ...

We respond to government plans to increase the cap on tuition fees for England-domiciled undergraduate students.

We are pleased to announce the appointment of François Gerard as TaxDev ’s new Research Director. TaxDev is a collaboration ...

Objective analysis of economic policy is more important now than it has ever been. You can join our network and help improve ...

With birth rates at record lows, we ask what the implications are for the UK and how it might impact the public finances.

Let’s start with the plaudits. Chancellors faced with the sort of tough public finance situation that Rachel Reeves has inherited have tended to take an axe to investment. That happened in the 1990s.

IFS Director Paul Johnson said: “In broad brush strokes, that was the Budget we had been led to expect: big tax rises, more cash for public services, more borrowing and more investment. Look beyond ...