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What would it take to fix social care?
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How does social care work, why has reform proved so difficult, and what would it take to build a fairer and more sustainable system?
17 September 2026
Land value tax: the perfect tax?
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Unlike most taxes, land value tax doesn’t discourage people from working, investing or building. So why don’t we use it more?
7 September 2026
How to fix business rates
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Business rates are blamed for killing the high street. But would cutting them actually help shops and pubs - or simply make landlords richer?
27 August 2026
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IFS Annual Lecture: Are Ideas Harder to Find, Overall?
event 12 October 2026
Nobel Laureate Philippe Aghion will deliver the 2026 IFS Annual Lecture.
IFS Green Budget 2026
event 14 October 2026
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IFS Zooms In Live: A look ahead to the Budget
event 20 October 2026
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Dimensions of Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review

Report

When people worry about the state of the world, or the state of the UK, they often mention the word ‘inequality’.

17 July 2024

Lack of progress on closing educational inequalities disadvantaging millions throughout life

Press Release

New research finds that disadvantaged pupils start school behind their better-off peers and the education system is not closing these gaps.

16 August 2022

Lack of progress on closing educational inequalities disadvantaging millions throughout life

Press Release

New research on inequalities, carried out for the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities and funded by the Nuffield Foundation...

16 August 2022

Education inequalities

Report

We look at shifts in the education landscape in the UK and its impact on inequalities.

16 August 2022

Inequalities in education, skills, and incomes in the UK: The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic

Report

This report seeks to set out the potential effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on inequalities in the UK. The pandemic has affected inequalities in education, training, wages, employment and health, including how these vary by gender, ethnicity, and across generations.

23 March 2021

Responding to the challenges for work and welfare policy post-Covid

Event 5 October 2020

On 29th September The British Academy and the Institute for Fiscal Studies hosted a roundtable on Responding to the challenges for work and welfare po

Government investment improves attainment in disadvantaged schools

Press Release

22 February 2007

Resources and standards in urban schools

Report

In this paper we look at the impact of resources on pupil outcomes by considering an English education policy initiative, Excellence in Cities.

22 February 2007

An economic evaluation of the early impact of Aimhigher:Excellence Challenge on pre-16 outcomes update to previous analysis

Report

This paper updates previous estimates of the impact of the programme on the GCSE marks and reported expected school leaving ages, among year 11 pupils.

4 December 2006

Aimhigher : Excellence Challenge: a policy evaluation using the Labour Force Survey

Report

In this paper we study the impact of Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge using information contained in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) for individuals aged between 16 and 20.

4 December 2006

Evaluation of Aimhigher:Excellence Challenge: economic evaluation of opportunity bursaries

Report

This paper looks at the impact of Opportunity Bursaries on young adults who received payments in 2001-02 and 2002-03.

5 July 2005

Evaluation of Aimhigher:Excellence Challenge: The early impact of Aimhigher:Excellence Challenge on pre-16 outcomes: an economic evaluation

Report

This paper looks at the impact of the Aimhigher:Excellence Challenge programme on pupils who have been exposed to it for one year.

5 July 2005

The economic evaluation of education initiatives

Book Chapter

The chapter on The economic evaluation of education initiatives considers issues related to the economic evaluation of government interventions in the education system, followed by a discussion of recent evidence of the Education Maintenance Allowance and Excellence in Cities initiatives.

1 June 2005

Improving pupil performance in English secondary schools: Excellence in Cities

Journal article

This paper reports on the short run impact of one of the U.K. government's flagship education policies, the Excellence in Cities (EiC) program.

1 April 2004

Evaluation of Excellence in Cities Primary Schools Extension

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Evaluation of Excellence in Cities Primary Schools Extension

1 January 2003

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Dimensions of Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review

Lack of progress on closing educational inequalities disadvantaging millions throughout life

Lack of progress on closing educational inequalities disadvantaging millions throughout life

Education inequalities

Inequalities in education, skills, and incomes in the UK: The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic

Responding to the challenges for work and welfare policy post-Covid

Government investment improves attainment in disadvantaged schools

Resources and standards in urban schools

An economic evaluation of the early impact of Aimhigher:Excellence Challenge on pre-16 outcomes update to previous analysis

Aimhigher : Excellence Challenge: a policy evaluation using the Labour Force Survey

Evaluation of Aimhigher:Excellence Challenge: economic evaluation of opportunity bursaries

Evaluation of Aimhigher:Excellence Challenge: The early impact of Aimhigher:Excellence Challenge on pre-16 outcomes: an economic evaluation

The economic evaluation of education initiatives

Improving pupil performance in English secondary schools: Excellence in Cities

Evaluation of Excellence in Cities Primary Schools Extension

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