This wasn’t the spending and investment bonanza that the speech, its supporters and detractors all seem to want to suggest.

This year's RES Conference features a special session on the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities with key IFS contributors to ...

New childcare entitlements have proven popular – meaning spending from 2026 onwards could be £1 billion higher than ...

The chancellor has pledged an extra £1.2 billion annually for FE by 2028-29. But will this be enough to reverse a decade of ...

The next few years are going to be very tight for school budgets and forecasting anything more than a real-terms freeze is ...

Young people at risk of getting involved in violence are those in most of need of therapeutic support, but most unlikely to receive it. The Your Choice programme aims to shift how such therapeutic ...

Agar is a Professor of Economics at the University of Venice and a Research Fellow of the IFS. She has investigated the behaviour of individuals and household both in the area of consumption and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Giulio is an IFS Research Associate and a professor in the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London. His main research fields are theoretical labour economics and ...

Jonathan is an Assistant Professor and the Helen and O.N. Mitchell, Jr Faculty Fellow in Real Estate at the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University and a Research Associate at IFS and cemmap. His ...