An in-depth look at the UK’s long-term fiscal risks, from ageing and pensions to climate change, and what can be done to ...

We develop the concept of relative resource shares, defined as the fraction of total adult expenditure that women command ...

Different methods of eliciting the Marginal Propensity to Consume give very different distributions.

This review discusses the standards for tax software and puts forward recommendations for HMRC, software providers, agents ...

Should the OBR publish only one forecast a year? Or are there better ways to discourage Chancellors from excessive policy ...

It is welcome that the new Pensions Commission will assess the adequacy of the retirement savings of today’s working-age ...

IFS Research Fellow, Laura Abramovsky, delivered the presentation in Helsinki as part of the UNU-WIDER's flagship conference ...

One year into Labour’s government, we assess whether its mission-driven approach has changed how it governs and what progress ...

Pension participation should be extended by providing employer contributions to almost all employees (anyone with earnings ...

We evaluate the effectiveness of a sanitation marketing intervention aimed at increasing the supply of improved toilet ...

Which public services are the relative winners and losers from Rachel Reeves’ multi-year 2025 Spending Review?

The broad thrust of Nigel Farage’s speech echoes Reform UK’s manifesto: very large tax cuts to be paid for with very large spending cuts.