Poor lose most from the Budget

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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

Should we worry about government debt?

podcast

David Miles joins us to discuss high government debt and its impact on the economy.

11 April 2024

A mess has been made of Child Benefit, and the clear-up operation may not be easy

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"Status quos can be hard to change, no matter how incoherent they are." Robert Joyce writes about child benefit in The Telegraph.

29 March 2024

Policy analysis

What you need to know about the new childcare entitlements

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This comment looks at who will be eligible for free childcare, whether funding is high enough and what impact the new entitlements might have.

28 March 2024

Oil and gas make Scotland’s underlying public finances particularly volatile and uncertain

comment

A fallback in oil and gas prices has hit Scotland’s underlying public finance position this year.

27 March 2024

Health spending planned to fall in England and Scotland in 2024–25, suggesting a top-up likely

comment

Day-to-day spending on health in England is planned to fall in 2024–25 compared with the latest budgets for 2023–24.

4 March 2024

Academic research

Sustaining behavioural change: Evidence from rural Pakistan

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Where community interventions lead to behaviour change, continued interactions are needed to help people maintain healthy behaviours.

27 January 2023

6th World Bank/IFS/ODI Public Finance Conference | Driving Progress: Public Finance and Structural Transformation

conference 26 September 2024

We invite researchers from both academic and policy institutions to submit a paper or an extended abstract of two or more pages by April.

Inaugural IFS postdoc workshop

workshop 4 July 2024 at 09:00

This academic workshop on applied public and labour economics will feature presentations by alumni of the IFS postdoc scheme.