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Autumn Budget 2026

All our IFS analysis to date of Chancellor John Healey's Autumn Budget 2026.

Challenges for the Milburn Review

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Why has the UK’s NEET rate risen since the pandemic? What are the key questions for evaluating the Milburn Review?

9 November 2026

Can the government make us eat more healthily?

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Are sugar taxes working? We examine government efforts to improve diets and how weight-loss drugs could change the debate.

5 November 2026

Fiscal devolution roadmap: has the government set a clear direction of travel?

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The government’s fiscal devolution roadmap has arrived.

30 October 2026

A sensible start to fiscal devolution

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The fiscal devolution roadmap sets out plans to share income tax with England’s mayors – but some details need rethinking.

29 October 2026

A balanced first step on fiscal devolution

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The fiscal devolution roadmap makes it clear the system will allow areas to gain financially from growth, but with guardrails in place.

29 October 2026

Budget 2026: what has the Chancellor changed?

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What has the Budget changed? IFS economists consider the announcements, higher borrowing and the difficult choices ahead on taxes and public spending.

29 October 2026

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Latest working papers

Our IFS working paper series publishes academic papers by staff and IFS associates.

Challenges to scaling a youth violence reduction intervention: Evidence from a field experiment and qualitative data

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We evaluate a flagship violence-reduction intervention in London, known as Your Choice, that targets adolescents at risk of exposure to violent crime.

28 October 2026

Understanding migration responses to local shocks

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Using Brazilian and German administrative data, we show attenuation can exceed 50% and that conventional regression estimates can be highly imprecise.

22 October 2026

Closing the gender pension gap - labor supply and welfare effects of progressive pensions

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Using German administrative data, we analyze the distributional and welfare effects of a progressive pension supplement.

20 October 2026

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Unpacking transatlantic income inequality

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Why have European and North American countries become more similar in their levels of income inequality?

4 November 2026

Quality of year-end spending and risk–return trade-off

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This paper examines how the quality of government spending changes at the end of the fiscal year.

5 October 2026

Measuring levelling up in a many-dimensioned world: an application to the United Kingdom

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We analyse UK outcomes over the period 2010–2018, where we find that there is little evidence of levelling-up type growth.

5 October 2026

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Sarah Cattan becomes ADR UK Fellow

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We are pleased to announce that Sarah Cattan has been appointed as a Research Fellow at ADR UK.

27 August 2026

Challenging Inequalities receives universal praise

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The book has been recognised by leading reviewers as being rigorous, politically important and comprehensive.

24 July 2026

IFS part of major new Economics of Education Research Centre to strengthen evidence-based policymaking

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The centre will bring together education economists in academia and in government, to bring the best evidence to bear on education policy questions

20 May 2026

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Featured researchers

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Clara von Bismarck-Osten

PhD Scholar

Clara joined the IFS in 2021 on a scholarship to complete her MRes in Economics at UCL. Her research interests lie in labour and public economics.

Martin Brogaard

Research Economist

Martin joined the IFS in 2025 and works in the IOD sector, researching consumer behaviour and nutrition. He also works on devolved government policy.

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