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.

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 ...

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 ...

At the 2023 Spring Budget, then-Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the largest-ever expansion of publicly funded childcare entitlements, offering new entitlements for working families with children aged ...

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 government has announced changes to its planned reforms to the benefit system. As well as changes to employment support – details of which are yet to be clarified – the new package slows the speed ...

Opinions and prejudices are easy. We all have them, me as much as anyone. Take working from home. I rarely meet anyone without a strong opinion. Politicians enjoy pronouncing. But what do we actually ...

In her recent speech at the 2024 Labour Party conference, the new Chancellor Rachel Reeves promised that the fiscal event on 30 October will be a ‘Budget for investment’. She said that ‘growth is the ...