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

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

Five years ago, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson made ‘levelling up’ a central plank of the Conservative Party’s bid for re-election, with a manifesto pledge to ‘level up every part of the UK’. In ...

Paul Johnson, IFS Director, said: “The Liberal Democrats want to top up existing spending plans so that the state remains at around its current size, relative to national income - and hence ...

Job vacancies are an early indicator of economic activity. When a firm’s demand for labour increases, it may post new vacancies some time before these vacancies are actually filled; conversely, when ...

We are pleased to announce that our research on the effects of Sure Start on children’s outcomes has been awarded ONS' Impact of Analysis Award. From tax rises to new spending pressures, we break down ...

It is well known that the average graduate earns more than non graduates, and that university graduates from certain subjects and from certain universities earn considerably more than others. For ...