The government's Defence Investment Plan adds £3.8 billion a year, but how it will be funded and the path to 3.5% by 2035 ...

What makes a good job? This episode explores pay, progression, flexibility and why access to better work is unequal.

The government has chosen to follow the pay recommendations from the independent school teachers pay review body.

This comprehensive course delves into the principles of research design and explores all main quantitative evaluation methods: randomised experiments, instrumental variables, sharp and fuzzy ...

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Drawing on the IFS Deaton Review of inequalities, this report sets out a policy toolkit and applications to education, jobs, geography and wealth.

The communications, finance and professional services teams work with IFS to ensure their research has the maximum impact.

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 ...

Our research covers a wide range of topics related to businesses and their investments, including firm productivity, ...

Why UK electricity prices are so high, how renewables affect costs, and what government can do to protect households from shocks.

Like spending on the NHS, and schools, English council funding has increased over the current parliament. But that follows a decade of austerity in the 2010s. And despite funding increases, councils ...

The government has published the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement for 2025–26, setting out funding allocations for English councils next year. This confirms an important shift in grant ...