Education spending Share of apprenticeship budget spent on each apprenticeship level Published on 16 January 2025 The proportion of funding directed to higher-level apprenticeships (level 4 and above) has trebled between 2017–18 and 2021–22 from 13% to 39%. Education and skills Education Further education Skills Government spending
Rethinking the Education Maintenance Allowance: Lessons from a long-term analysis comment This evidence should prompt us to look beyond simple financial incentives for classroom attendance. 10 March 2025
Drastic times need drastic action: breaking the 50-year tax taboo comment Rachel Reeves should consider increasing the basic rate, just as Denis Healey did in 1975 14 April 2025
Spring Statement 2025: IFS Zooms In podcast What were the decisions and trade-offs made by Chancellor Reeves? 27 March 2025
The short- and long-run effects of the Education Maintenance Allowance report This report studies the long-run effect of the Education Maintenance Allowance on educational attainment, earnings and crime. 26 February 2025
How can policy boost productivity growth? conference 25 March 2025 at 09:30 At this policy conference, four panels of experts gave their perspectives and recommendations on four key areas of the UK’s productivity problem.
Spending Review 2025 collection Find our latest analysis ahead of the 2025 Spending Review here. 11 June 2025
The short- and long-run effects of paying disadvantaged teenagers to go to school working paper This working paper studies the long-run effect of a cash transfer to disadvantaged students on educational attainment, earnings and crime. 26 February 2025
Vog: using volcanic eruptions to estimate the impact of air pollution on student test scores working paper We demonstrate that poor air quality disproportionately impacts the human capital accumulation of economically disadvantaged children. 20 February 2025
Changes in marital sorting: theory and evidence from the US working paper Measuring how assortative matching differs between two economies is difficult, we show how the use of different measures can create different outcomes 27 November 2024
