The tax and spending choices facing Andy Burnham podcast<p class="p1">Andy Burnham faces difficult choices over tax, borrowing and public spending. How much room will the new Prime Minister have to act?</p>16 July 2026
Will devolution solve the UK’s economic woes? podcast<p>Could devolution boost UK growth, or would it widen regional divides? We ask what shifting power from Westminster would really mean.</p>9 July 2026
The inequality of 'good jobs' podcast<p>What makes a good job? This episode explores pay, progression, flexibility and why access to better work is unequal.</p>25 June 2026
IFS Annual Lecture: Are Ideas Harder to Find, Overall? event 12 October 2026 <p><span data-teams="true">Nobel Laureate Philippe Aghion will deliver the 2026 IFS Annual Lecture.</span></p>
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Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy The Research Centre at the heart of IFS is the CPP.
Estimated shortfall in local housing allowance (LHA) rate relative to 30th percentile, by broad rental market area (BRMA) Published on 21 November 2025 Freezes to local housing allowance rates have made significant differences in the level of support available across areas and property sizes. Taxes and benefits Housing Benefits Geography Poverty
Why has in-work poverty risen? comment We study the reasons for rising in-work poverty in the 25 years up to the pandemic. 12 November 2025
How unequal is Britain? podcast We set out the facts on UK inequality, from income and wealth to opportunity, health and place. 4 June 2026
Two-child limit mitigation in Scotland would help larger poor families but policy design could harm work incentives comment 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
Freezes in housing support once again widen geographic disparities for low-income renters comment Freezes to local housing allowances reduce the disposable incomes of low-income private renters. LHA rates should be regularly and locally uprated. 21 November 2025
Strong case for integrating complex and confusing council tax support into universal credit press release An examination of council tax support schemes across England, Scotland and Wales, and the case for reform 11 March 2026
How does council tax support shape household incomes and work incentives? report What is council tax support? Who receives it and how much does it affect household incomes? 11 March 2026
For shorter or poorer: attitudes toward the trade-off between poverty and mortality working paper Many policy decisions involve trade-offs between lives and livelihoods. We provide estimates for a new welfare parameter that expresses this trade off 1 April 2026
Who is helped by Help to Buy schemes? working paper Demand-side policies which relax borrowing constraints for homebuyers, with the aim of increasing homeownership, are increasingly common. 15 April 2026
Focal pricing constraints and pass-through of input cost change working paper I prove that, in a simple but general framework, expected pass-through is unchanged by the presence of focal pricing constraints. 13 April 2026
