A minimum price for alcohol: Oral evidence given to Scottish Parliament Health and Sport Select Committee (transcript)

Understand this issue

The Conservative manifesto

explainer

IFS Director Paul Johnson responds to the Conservative manifesto.

11 June 2024

Tough questions will face the election winners

comment

"Whichever of the main parties forms the next government, it will need to cut spending or raise taxes or it will miss its own fiscal targets."

10 June 2024

Liberal Democrat manifesto: a reaction

comment

An assessment of the tax rises and spending increases proposed in the 2024 Liberal Democrat general election manifesto.

10 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

How should we interpret parties’ public spending pledges this election?

comment

Parties have pledged lots of ‘fully costed’ spending policies but these tell us little about the actual funding each public service might receive.

23 June 2024

Main parties’ manifestos tell us little about the funding individual public services would actually receive

press release

Labour and the Conservatives' manifestos are continuing a conspiracy of silence when it comes to public service spending plans.

23 June 2024

Academic research

Income inequality in Ireland, 1987–2019

journal article

This paper highlights an aspect of the Irish experience that does stand out as quite remarkable.

28 June 2024

Components of the evolution of income inequality in Sweden, 1990–2021

journal article

This paper documents how the inequality of household equivalent disposable income has changed in Sweden over the period 1990–2021.

28 June 2024

Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages

working paper

We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US.

15 April 2024