Our latest report on education spending in England shows how further education has faced some of the deepest funding cuts ...

If a recent rise in borrowing costs proved persistent, it will make it even harder for the Chancellor to continue to meet her ...

We study ten years of reforms in the United Kingdom which increased the ERA for women from 60 to 66.

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 ...

The IFS created the Tax Law Review Committee (TLRC) in 1994. The TLRC’s remit is to keep under review the state and operation of tax law in the UK. The TLRC asks in particular whether aspects of the ...

A government with a big majority should have had the political will to do more than just set up another review.

This annual report contains our latest estimates of spending per pupil and resource challenges across different stages of education in England.

David is an Associate Director and helps lead two main areas of research at the Institute. First is work on devolved and local government finance, with a particular focus on the distribution of ...

Since its inception in 1979, Fiscal Studies has earned a reputation around the world for publishing high-quality, original research papers in a style understandable to a wide audience. Written by ...

We study ten years of reforms in the United Kingdom which increased the ERA for women from 60 to 66. In UK data, I document the prevalence of misbeliefs regarding the State Pension eligibility age ...

Education spending is the second-largest element of public service spending in the UK behind health, representing £116 billion in 2023-24 in today’s prices or about 4.4% of national income.