What are IFS experts looking out for in 2026? We discuss rising unemployment, benefit reforms, and whether new technologies ...

This presentation 'The economic, fiscal and funding outlook' was given by David Phillips and Kate Ogden at the Local ...

Governments frequently rely on multiple actors to deliver technology-adoption policies at scale, yet we find that information ...

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

At this in-person policy conference, researchers will present new evidence on the scale and causes of regional inequalities.

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

In this paper, we propose a user-friendly estimator to implement the method of difference-in-differences with ordinal ...

We study how financial markets and, in particular, changes in the price of and access to capital, in shape UK regional growth ...

Correction: An earlier version of this comment incorrectly stated that core funding for the most deprived tenth of areas would increase by 22.6% in real terms. This is the cash-terms figure. The ...

The adult social care sector in England faces long-standing and well-documented workforce challenges. Of perennial concern are adult social care providers’ struggles to attract and retain sufficient ...