What is the two-child limit in benefits?

Understand this issue

Why did the French Budget fail to pass?

podcast

France’s failed budget highlights fundamental challenges with public debt, slow growth, and the need for significant reforms.

12 December 2024

What does the Budget mean for the UK?

podcast

We discuss the Chancellor's first Budget and what impact the changes could have.

31 October 2024

Two-child limit mitigation in Scotland would help larger poor families but policy design could harm work incentives

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Mitigating the two-child limit policy would be an effective way to reduce child poverty, but designing an effective policy is not straightforward. 

14 March 2025

Policy analysis

The role of changing health in rising health-related benefit claims

report

Is the working-age population less healthy since the pandemic? What role is changing health playing in rising health-related benefit claims?

12 March 2025

Spending per pupil or student per year at different stages of education (2024–25 prices)

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This chart compares the trends in public spending per student on various stages of education over time in England. 

16 January 2025

Total real-terms spending on free entitlement hours in England

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Total spending on the free entitlement doubled during the 2000s, and then more than doubled again during the 2010s. 

10 January 2025

Academic research

Tax evasion and the contribution-benefit link: the case of maternity benefits

working paper

This paper studies tax evasion and the contribution-benefit link in the context of maternity benefits in Hungary.

18 December 2024

Imagine your life at 25: gender conformity and later-life outcomes

working paper

We analyse thousands of essays written by 11-year-old girls in 1969 to assess conformity with gender norms and its implications for future outcomes.

22 February 2025

The welfare effects of price shocks and household relief packages: Evidence from an energy crisis

working paper

How should governments respond to rapid increases in the cost of living driven by shocks to the prices of staple goods?

31 January 2025