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One year of Labour government: Is mission-driven politics really happening?
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18 July 2025
How to fix UK pensions?
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<p>Can the UK pensions system deliver a decent standard of living in retirement? We explore the challenges and changes needed.</p>
4 July 2025
The policy that changed childhood in the UK
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<p>What was Sure Start, what impact did it have, and why does it still matter? We speak to Christine Farquharson and Ed Balls to find out.</p>
26 June 2025
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Labour’s first year in power: is this still a mission-driven government?
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<p>The Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Institute for Government discussed Labour's first year in power at a joint event.</p>
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The effect of school quality on educational attainment and wages

Published on 3 January 1998

This Working Paper is an update of The effect of school quality on educational attainment and wages

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Lorraine Dearden

Costas Meghir

Research Fellow Yale University

Costas is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Visiting Professor at University College London.

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