IFS director, Paul Johnson, on BBC Radio 4 Analysis Programme discussing the impact of minimum wages

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Sure Start achieved its aims, then we threw it away

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"We know that poor children grow up with poor life chances. We know how to ameliorate that. The choice is ours." Paul Johnson writes for the Times.

15 April 2024

The NHS waiting list: when will it come down?

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We discuss all things waiting list - What is it? How big is it? Is there a credible plan to get it back down?

29 February 2024

How important is the Bank of Mum and Dad?

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Paul Johnson talks us through patterns of financial help for first-time buyers.

15 December 2023

Policy analysis

Recent trends in public sector pay

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How has public sector pay changed in recent years? Which type of workers have done better and which have done worse?

26 March 2024

The short- and medium-term impacts of Sure Start on educational outcomes

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We study the medium-run effect of Sure Start on academic outcomes, finding large benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

9 April 2024

Sure Start greatly improved disadvantaged children’s GCSE results

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New research from IFS finds that Sure Start generated big improvements in the educational performance of children from low-income backgrounds.

9 April 2024

Academic research

Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages

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We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US.

15 April 2024

Interpreting cohort profiles of lifecycle earnings volatility

working paper

We present new estimates of earnings volatility over time and the lifecycle for men and women by race and human capital.

15 April 2024

There and back again: women’s marginal commuting costs

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We estimate female and male workers’ marginal willingness to pay to reduce commuting distance in Germany.

2 April 2024