My book Left Behind drew on recent academic advances that analyse why the life chances of young people in the same country ...

We study how financial markets and, in particular, changes in the price of and access to capital, in shape UK regional growth ...

In this paper, we propose a user-friendly estimator to implement the method of difference-in-differences with ordinal ...

We study how the timing of economic support measures during the COVID-19 pandemic affected household financial distress ...

This paper investigates how the link between opportunity and childhood varies in England.

Rachel Reeves made a number of big choices in her first Budget. She chose to increase borrowing in order to increase investment spending – or at least to stop it falling as a fraction of national ...

Ben Zaranko, Associate Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies said: "If the UK needs to spend more on defence on a structural and permanent basis, that is not something that can be sustainably ...

There are well-documented ethnic inequalities in the labour market. While it has on occasion been suggested that these may stem from differences in characteristics among those of different ethnic ...

Areas in England vary in how much funding they receive for public services, and in how much they would need to spend to deliver the same level of services to their populations. For example, an area ...

The ledgers of the public finances have rarely made for more dismal reading. Tax revenues are this year set to reach their highest level since the 1940s (and are forecast to rise further still).

The number of people waiting for NHS treatment in England has risen rapidly during the Covid-19 pandemic, with 7.2 million incomplete treatment pathways in December 2022. The graph below shows the ...

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a fall in the employment rate in the UK, driven by a rise in the rate of economic inactivity rather than in unemployment. There has been ...