IFS researchers assess the rationale for a pupil premium and offer an empirical analysis of how such a scheme might operate in practice and affect school finances.

Whoever forms the next Government should put in place a fiscal tightening more ambitious over the next Parliament than that set out in the PBR, but without putting the recovery at undue risk with significant extra tax increases or public spending cuts in the coming year.

Today IFS staff will give evidence at the first public hearing of the Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance, chaired by Lord Browne.

Some initial reactions to the 2009 Pre-Budget Report from Mike Brewer, Robert Chote and Carl Emmerson.

Defined benefit pensions in the public sector are worth more as a share of the total remuneration package than they are in the private sector.

Creating a new independent body to forecast the public finances could help keep the interest rates at which the government is able to borrow low, Robert Chote, the Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, will argue in the Scottish Economic Society / Royal Bank of Scotland Annual Lecture in Edinburgh this evening.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies is pleased to announce that its 2010 Green Budget will be produced for the first time in collaboration with Barclays Capital and Barclays Wealth. It will be launched at the British Museum on 3rd February 2010.