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The tax and spending choices facing Andy Burnham
Andy Burnham faces difficult choices over tax, borrowing and public spending. How much room will the new Prime Minister have to act?
16 July 2026

Will devolution solve the UK’s economic woes?
Could devolution boost UK growth, or would it widen regional divides? We ask what shifting power from Westminster would really mean.
9 July 2026

The inequality of 'good jobs'
What makes a good job? This episode explores pay, progression, flexibility and why access to better work is unequal.
25 June 2026
Policy analysis

IFS-Cemmap Remote Policy Evaluation Methods Course
Register now to learn key policy evaluation methods with IFS–Cemmap. Combine self-paced study and live sessions to apply techniques using Stata or R.

Automatic enrolment: trends in employer pension contributions and the impact of potential reforms
This report presents a range of potential reforms to increase minimum pension contribution rates for people saving in workplace pensions.
21 July 2026

What is driving increases in tribunal backlogs?
We analyse trends in tribunal backlogs and the drivers behind them in the last 15 years.
7 July 2026
Academic research

Economic opportunities by race and ethnicity
We are currently welcoming submissions of rigorous research across a broad range of dimensions to this in-person academic conference by 31st July.

Educational mobility across multiple generations in Indonesia
Using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) and Census data, we study multigenerational correlations in education across three generations.
10 July 2026

The economic value of childhood socio-economic skills
We examine the relationship between childhood socio-emotional skills and labour market outcomes using the 1970 British Cohort Study.
9 July 2026