This report examines how the government’s recent proposed welfare reforms affect incomes, insurance, and incentives to work ...

These changes more than halve the saving of the package of reforms, making the Chancellor’s already difficult Budget ...

There's significant speculation that some of the proposed disability benefit changes will be scaled back: we discuss some of ...

The two documents published by the Scottish Government today – its Medium-Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) and Fiscal ...

A response to the government's announcement that it will commit to spending 5% of national income on national security in ...

What was Sure Start, what impact did it have, and why does it still matter? We speak to Christine Farquharson and Ed Balls to ...

The tax system pushes businesses and households away from electricity towards gas, making net zero more costly to achieve.

Lars Nesheim is a Professor of Economics at UCL and Co-Director of the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap).. After obtaining his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2001, he worked ...

Paul has been director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 2011. He is a columnist for The Times, and is a regular contributor to other broadcast and print media. He is a visiting professor in ...

Giulio is an IFS Research Associate and a professor in the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London. His main research fields are theoretical labour economics and ...

David is an Associate Director and helps lead two main areas of research at the Institute. First is work on devolved and local government finance, with a particular focus on the distribution of ...