The truth about our cash that politicians dare not speak

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Public investment: what you need to know

explainer

Everything you wanted to know about UK public investment but were too afraid to ask – including analysis of Labour and Conservative plans.

25 April 2024

The £600 billion problem awaiting the next government

podcast

We speak to David Gauke and Giles Wilkes, two experts who have been at the heart of the spending review process.

25 April 2024

If you can’t see it, you can’t be it: role models influence female junior doctors’ choice of medical specialty

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Working alongside a greater share of senior women specialists during an early-career placement influences junior women’s own specialty choice.

24 April 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

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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

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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.