An expansion of discounter retailers coincided with declining retail and manufacturer concentration across most narrowly ...

We explore the evidence on early years policy and assess the government's Opportunity Mission, which aims to give every child ...

The gap in employment rates between the best- and worst-performing areas is at its widest since 2005, says Christine Farquharson. In the final run up to the election, we answer your questions about ...

We study how couples in the Medicare Part D program choose an insurance plan. Over seventy percent of enrollees choose the ...

This paper presents a computationally efficient method for binary classification using Manski’s (1975,1985) maximum score ...

The Pensions Review – led by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in partnership with abrdn Financial Fairness Trust – is a big, 4 ½-year, project to comprehensively assess the consequences of current ...

The big picture also rings alarm bells. After their 2015 and 2017 election victories, the Conservatives spent a lot more than promised in their manifestos — in many ways, an odd electoral strategy to ...

With the Pensions Commission launched this week, this article outlines three focus areas from the IFS's Pension Review ...

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Our interactive tool lets you be the Chancellor. Change spending plans, set tax policies and see how your choices impact borrowing and debt.

This report gives a high-level overview of tax policy across the period 2010 to 2024. An appendix summarises the main tax policy changes. There are some clear distinctions between the governments ...