Rising interest rates could put the government on track to miss its fiscal rules. What are the Chancellor’s options?

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 ...

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

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 ...

Helen is Deputy Director of the IFS and Head of the Tax sector. Her main research interests are the effects of the tax system on individuals and firms behaviour and the design of tax policy. Her ...

The new government has high ambitions to improve education and reduce inequalities. However, like most governments in recent years, it faces a very challenging set of public finances, maybe even more ...

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 ...

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