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Spring Budget 2024: What you need to know

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IFS reaction to the Chancellor's Spring Budget.

7 March 2024

Sure Start achieved its aims, then we threw it away

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"We know that poor children grow up with poor life chances. We know how to ameliorate that. The choice is ours." Paul Johnson writes for the Times.

15 April 2024

Behind the numbers: reassessing investment in skills and training

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"There are concrete steps, such as reforming the Apprenticeship Levy, that the government should take to improve the existing skills system."

12 October 2023

Policy analysis

Spring Budget 2024

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All our analysis of the Spring Budget 2024. Includes research, comment, explainers and more.

6 March 2024

The short- and medium-term impacts of Sure Start on educational outcomes

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We study the medium-run effect of Sure Start on academic outcomes, finding large benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

9 April 2024

Sure Start greatly improved disadvantaged children’s GCSE results

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New research from IFS finds that Sure Start generated big improvements in the educational performance of children from low-income backgrounds.

9 April 2024

Academic research

Parental beliefs, perceived health risks, and time investment in children

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What role did beliefs about risks and returns play for the allocation of time investment in children during the pandemic?

15 April 2024

Willingness to pay for improved public education and public healthcare systems: the role of income mobility prospects

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These findings are based on more than 19,000 observations from the third round of the Life in Transition Survey.

14 March 2024

Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages

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We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US.

15 April 2024