The Chancellor's parenthood dividend

Understand this issue

The big challenges facing the benefits system

podcast

Can the rising costs of benefits be managed and what changes could improve the system?

10 September 2024

How could the Chancellor raise more tax?

podcast

What options does the Chancellor have for raising taxes in the October Budget?

28 August 2024

Why are universities in financial trouble?

podcast

Why are universities struggling, what happens if they go bust and what can government do to help? What other challenges do the HE and FE sectors face?

21 August 2024

Policy analysis

Devolution may be sexier, but updating the local government finance system is vital

comment

Any plans for devolution need to be accompanied by updates to English councils’ hideously outdated funding allocations.

3 September 2024

IFS responds to the latest public finance figures

comment

Analysis of today's figures on day-to-day spending by central government.

21 August 2024

Lower oil and gas prices hit Scotland’s underlying public finances in 2023-24

comment

Scotland’s notional fiscal deficit rose by £4.7 billion (2% of GDP) in 2023–24, as lower oil and gas prices hit North Sea revenues.

14 August 2024

Academic research

Sustaining behavioural change: Evidence from rural Pakistan

comment

Where community interventions lead to behaviour change, continued interactions are needed to help people maintain healthy behaviours.

27 January 2023

6th World Bank/IFS/ODI Public Finance Conference | Driving Progress: Public Finance and Structural Transformation

conference 26 September 2024 at 08:30

Online registrations are now open for the 6th World Bank/IFS/ODI Public Finance Conference

Identifying network ties from panel data: Theory and an application to tax competition

journal article

Our identification and application show that the analysis of social interactions can be extended to economic realms where no network data exists.

9 September 2024