This annual report compares spending across different stages of education in England and analyses the pressures and choices facing policymakers.

Summary of new research on the scale and sources of regional inequalities and policy implications.

Why isn’t the NHS improving faster? We unpack waiting lists, winter pressures, productivity and reform plans - and ask ...

On the benefits side, a new £40 per week ‘baby’ rate of the Scottish child payment for children under 1 year of age will be ...

Children of parents who benefited from the 1990s house price boom subsequently had more housing wealth and were more likely ...

This paper examines the UK’s current tax and disability trust framework and argues for a broader, more accessible range of ...

Using the 1937 introduction of antibiotics, we study how childhood pneumonia affects adult education, employment, income, and ...

Objective analysis of economic policy is more important now than it has ever been. You can join our network and help improve ...

What are IFS experts looking out for in 2026? We discuss rising unemployment, benefit reforms, and whether new technologies ...

We propose a new approach to estimate selection-corrected quantiles of the gender wage gap.

We study the impact of the UK house price boom on the intergenerational persistence of homeownership, housing wealth, ...

This presentation 'The economic, fiscal and funding outlook' was given by David Phillips and Kate Ogden at the Local ...