The government has confirmed a 16% cash increase in overall council funding over 3 years – and a big redistribution between ...

Short-staffed and less experienced nursing teams deliver worse outcomes in NHS hospitals – with some patient groups ...

With domestic-currency debt, a confidence crisis need not cause default, as monetary financing can shift default risk into ...

The results show that supermarket openings have no meaningful effect on care home staffing. In the first year after opening, ...

We study whether in practice the Scottish Child Payment (SCP) creates disincentives to work.

Shortages of less qualified nursing assistants have no impact on patient mortality. Greater levels of hospital-specific experience among nurses reduces mortality. The most affected patients are those ...

In this paper, we study the impact of supermarket and warehouse openings on the labour supply of care workers in England.

The online launch of 2026 IFS Annual Report on Education Spending in England, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.

We study how the diffusion of online dating platforms has shaped intermarriage patterns by race and education in the United ...

Using German pension records and exogenous policy variation, we identify behavioral responses to changes in benefit ...

At this online event, IFS researchers will discuss how rising house prices shaped young people’s social mobility.