Reform UK's Welsh manifesto echoes Conservative proposals while leaving the spending cuts needed to fund its tax ambitions ...

We study the role of Gender Role Attitudes (GRA)—beliefs about appropriate roles for men and women—in marital sorting and intra-household allocations.

This comment explores how young workers are matched to firms in local labour markets in England, using the Longitudinal ...

IFS researchers respond to the Chancellor’s Spring Forecast, which was presented against an uncertain global backdrop with ...

Spring Forecast: headline numbers look steady but higher energy prices could lift UK inflation, rates and borrowing faster than expected.

The Spring Forecast is unlikely to feature policy changes but could highlight risks to the public finances for the year ahead ...

David Phillips, head of devolved and local government finance at the IFS, said: “The Welsh Conservatives’ flagship proposals are reductions to three of Wales’s devolved taxes: the Welsh rates of ...

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We estimate the economic impacts of rape using population-wide Finnish police reports and hospital admissions.

ONS figures released today show borrowing in the first 10 months of the year is £15 billion below the same months last year.

Rory is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario and a Research Associate at IFS. He was previously a PhD Scholar at the IFS. His fields of interest are Public ...