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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From council tax and stamp duty to business rates and taxes on landlords, the UK’s system for taxing property is complicated, inconsistent, and long overdue for reform. Homes aren’t just places to ...

This was another big Budget. The Treasury’s scorecard contained seventy-five separate new measures. There were meaningful increases in tax, spending, and borrowing. I’ll leave my colleagues to walk ...