The idea of a single ‘tipping point’ for the RAB charge is misleading

Understand this issue

The Autumn Statement explained

podcast

We analyse the Chancellor's 2023 Autumn Statement.

24 November 2023

Debt can be redefined but it won’t disappear. Hard decisions are needed

comment

"The bind is a real one. Both we and our political leaders need to face up to it." Paul Johnson writes for The Times.

23 October 2023

The economic picture facing the Chancellor

podcast

We look at the underlying economic situation facing the Chancellor following the publication of our IFS Green Budget 2023 report.

18 October 2023

Policy analysis

Socio-economic inequality in Scottish education

report

We examine how less affluent students perform compared with their more affluent peers in PISA tests, ahead of the new data release in December 2023.

16 November 2023

Increasing concentration of high-skilled jobs in London means graduates elsewhere cannot fully capitalise on their education

press release

The current economic geography of the UK limits both social mobility and the effective use of talent across the country.

13 November 2023

The changing geography of jobs

report

This report examines the way in which ‘hollowing out’ and other labour market trends have shaped the economic geography of the UK.

13 November 2023

Academic research

The effect of classroom rank on learning throughout elementary school: experimental evidence from Ecuador

working paper

We study the impact of classroom rank on children’s learning using a unique experiment from Ecuador.

8 August 2023

Exploiting discontinuities in secondary school attendance to evaluate value added

working paper

We use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England.

19 July 2023

First generation elite: the role of school networks

working paper

This paper shows differences in social capital are a key driver of the high intergenerational persistence in elite education.

5 May 2023