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Parents, especially poorer ones, overlook value added when applying to secondary schools

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Parents commonly do not apply to the most effective secondary school in their local area, this is especially true for parents living in poorer areas.

19 September 2023

FCDO renews TaxDev funding for the next seven years

Announcement

FCDO has announced renewed funding for The Centre for Tax Analysis in Developing Countries, a collaboration between IFS and ODI.

19 September 2023

The triple lock creates uncertainty for pension incomes and savers, as well as the public finances

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The pensions triple lock has increased state pension spending and creates uncertainty for current and future generations of pensioners.

8 September 2023

IFS Research Fellow publishes monograph on inequality

Announcement

IFS Research Fellow Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg has published a monologue entitled The Unequal Effects of Globalization.

7 September 2023

Social mobility continues to fall – and moving up is harder if you grow up in the North or Midlands

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"It may be harder now than at any point in over half a century to move up if you are born in a position of disadvantage.”

7 September 2023

NHS workforce plan implies one in eleven workers will be employed by the health service by 2036

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One in two public sector workers could be employed by the NHS by 2036.

30 August 2023

30-year-olds without any qualifications are more likely to be disabled than university graduates in their 60s

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New research finds that differences in rates of disability between education groups are larger than differences by age.

23 August 2023

Large mismatches between the funding different areas receive for public services and their spending needs

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The new report published today estimates the level of funding for key public services in each local authority area in England in 2022-23.

15 August 2023

Scotland’s recent weak employment and earnings trends reflect a marked deterioration in the Highlands, Islands and North East

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How have employment, earnings and incomes performed in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK? What drives geographic inequalities within Scotland?

9 August 2023

Almost half of children saw their social and emotional skills worsen during the pandemic – and economic turbulence played a role

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Nearly half of parents (47%) reported that their child’s social and emotional skills had worsened during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

1 August 2023

Lump-sum cost of living payments poorly designed to alleviate deprivation

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The government has introduced a series of ‘cost of living payments’.

13 July 2023

Removing tax exemptions from private schools likely to have little effect on numbers in the private sector, raising £1.3–1.5 billion in net terms

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Labour’s proposals to remove tax exemptions on private schools are likely to raise an extra £1.3-1.5 billion.

11 July 2023

Nearly half of older adults who left the workforce in 2020–21 ended up in relative poverty

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New IFS research, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, shows that 48% of 50- to 70-year-olds who had recently left the workforce in 2020–21 ended

7 July 2023

Even as they approach retirement, more than four in ten of those with a defined contribution pension do not know how they will access their savings

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In a new IFS report published today we look at how people plan to use these freedoms and what plans they have to access their pension pots.

30 June 2023

Housing benefits have been frozen while rents have sky-rocketed. Only 1 in 20 private rental properties on Zoopla can be covered by housing benefit

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Local housing allowance (LHA) rates have been frozen in cash terms since April 2020.

27 June 2023

One million middle-income working-age adults unable to meet an unexpected expense costing one month’s income

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One million working-age adults on middle incomes have less than one month’s income saved in an accessible form.

16 June 2023

Number of new disability benefit claims remains high, but today’s data show tentative signs of easing

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In the years since the pandemic, there has been a large and sustained rise in the number of adults being newly awarded working-age disability benefits each month.

13 June 2023

IFS International Research Fellow Olympia Bover wins Rei Jaume I Prize

Announcement

The prize is one of the highest awards for economics in Spain. Olympia is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy, the ESRC research institute based at the IFS.

12 June 2023