Parallels are increasingly being drawn between current economic circumstances and those of the 1970s. In this Briefing Note we take the opportunity to reflect on a few of the ways in which economic life has changed since the Silver Jubilee year.

This research, funded by the NAPF with co-funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, looks at the existing levels of saving in defined contribution (DC) pensions on the eve of auto-enrolment.

This Briefing Note gives an overview of the tax and benefit reforms currently planned for the coming financial year and their likely impact on household incomes.

Average UK household income has almost doubled in real terms over the past forty years. We document and analyse the factors that have contributed to this growth.

We use detailed data recording off-licence purchases to assess which types of alcohol products, retailers and consumers would be most affected by reforms.

In this Briefing Note, we describe the options for a national funding formula for schools and examine how different options would affect the finances of different schools or areas of the country.

The aim of this report is to identify the effect of month of birth on a range of key skills and behaviours amongst young people growing up in England today.

In this Briefing Note, we produce new estimates of the likely cuts to overall public spending on education in the UK up to 2014-15.

The inflation figures for September 2011 released this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are important, because they affect how the tax and benefit system will look in 2012-13.

This analysis finds that the shape of the state today is very different from that of 30 years ago and, going forward, spending on health, pensions and long term care is set to rise fast.