Rachel Reeves gives herself so little room for manoeuvre that she creates costly uncertainty when the choice is obvious: ...

Mitigating the two-child limit policy would be an effective way to reduce child poverty, but designing an effective policy is ...

The aim of the bill, as stated on the House of Commons Library website, is to “improve the safeguarding of children and to ...

A new IFS report released today, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Health Foundation, finds a range of evidence that mental health has worsened since the pandemic. This is consistent ...

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 ...

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 ...