The fiscal squeeze and tax and welfare changes affecting low-earning individuals

Understand this issue

Election Special: Your questions answered

podcast

In the final run up to the election, we answer your questions about everything from borrowing to AI to the part that luck plays in the economy.

27 June 2024

What is the two-child limit in benefits?

explainer

IFS Associate Director Tom Waters explains.

27 June 2024

Election Special: The big issues politicians haven't spoken about

podcast

What are the manifestos missing? What are the big challenges facing us? And what information should voters be aware of as they head to the polls?

25 June 2024

Policy analysis

How would the parties’ tax and spending plans affect Scotland and Wales?

report

This ‘explainer’ looks at how the parties’ proposals would affect Scotland and Wales, covering tax, spending, public finances and the constitution.

28 June 2024

What are the parties’ plans for benefits and taxes?

calculator

Use our simple interactive tool to see how the parties’ plans for benefits and taxes would impact household incomes over the next five years.

24 June 2024

The two-child limit: poverty, incentives and cost

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What impact has the ‘two-child limit’ in universal credit had, and what policy choices does the next government face?

17 June 2024

Academic research

Targeting men, women or both to reduce child marriage

working paper

We conduct a cluster-randomized control trial of an edutainment intervention aimed at delaying marriage of adolescent children in rural Pakistan.

28 May 2024

Keeping the peace whilst getting your way: Information, persuasion and intimate partner violence

working paper

We study the effects on intimate partner violence (IPV) of new information received by men and women, relevant to a high-stakes joint decision.

17 May 2024

The role of hospital networks in individual mortality

working paper

We estimate that broad-network insurers reduce mortality because they steer patients to higher-quality providers and reduce hospital congestion.

13 May 2024