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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Originally published in Economic Review magazine which provides articles to make recent academic research accessible for A-level students, apply economic theory to real-world situations and sharpen ...

There is much to criticise about the way in which UK fiscal policy is conducted. One particular issue is the amount of policy volatility and the fact that, twice a year, the Chancellor makes rushed ...