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Inheritance tax rises and the Budget: who's affected?
podcast
We discuss how inheritance tax actually changed in the budget, who will be affected and whether it was a good idea.
15 November 2024
How big are the UK's demographic challenges?
podcast
With birth rates at record lows, we ask what the implications are for the UK and how it might impact the public finances.
8 November 2024
What does the Budget mean for the UK?
podcast
We discuss the Chancellor's first Budget and what impact the changes could have.
31 October 2024
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IFS recruitment event: Summer students
event 2 December 2024
We're offer an opportunity to meet current IFS staff and find out more about our summer placement scheme for current university students.
Challenges for the means-tested benefit system for older people
event 11 December 2024
At this online event, IFS researchers will present new research highlighting key issues with the benefit system around retirement age.
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Education and skills

Our work on Education and Skills aims to understand what matters for the healthy development of children, from infancy to young adulthood. It tracks education spending in various stages of education and assesses the effectiveness of government policies at improving children’s outcomes and inequalities therein.

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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

A decline in foreign students and higher costs create a perfect storm for Scottish universities

Comment

Falls in funding for home students, a decline in international enrolments and higher labour costs put Scottish university finances under pressure.

19 November 2024

How cuts to youth clubs affected teen crime and education

Comment

Teenagers affected by austerity-induced youth club closures performed 4% worse in exams at age 16 and became 14% more likely to commit crimes.

13 November 2024

Household responses to trade shocks

Working Paper

We study the impact of Chinese import competition in the 2000s on workers and their households in England and Wales.

12 November 2024

The effects of youth clubs on education and crime

Working Paper

Using quasi-experimental variation from austerity-related cuts, I provide the first causal estimates of youth clubs' effects on education and crime.

12 November 2024

£390 million relief for English universities as government ends tuition fee freeze

Comment

We respond to government plans to increase the cap on tuition fees for England-domiciled undergraduate students.

4 November 2024

Schooled by trade? Retraining and import competition

Working Paper

We study the interaction of retraining and international trade in Germany, a highly open economy with extensive state-subsidized retraining programs.

28 October 2024

Autumn Budget 2024

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All our IFS analysis of Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Autumn Budget 2024.

24 October 2024

The state of college finances in England

Report

This report sets out the financial state of colleges in England since 2010 and analyses the key future challenges they face.

24 October 2024

The effect of Sure Start on youth misbehaviour, crime and contacts with children’s social care

Report

This report studies the impact of Sure Start, which supported families of under-5s, on children’s behaviour, youth offending and social care contacts.

23 October 2024

The effect of center-based early education on disadvantaged children’s developmental trajectories: experimental evidence from Colombia

Working Paper

We study the impacts of high-quality, center-based early childhood education on low income children in Colombia, tracking participants over five years

4 October 2024

How can government reduce child poverty?

Podcast

We're exploring why there's been an increase in child poverty since 2010 and options the government has to reduce this.

3 October 2024

Pressures on public sector pay

Report

Over a fifth of government spending goes on pay. We examine recruitment and retention challenges which mean that pressures could mount going forward.

27 September 2024

Education and inequality: an international perspective

Working Paper

Using existing literatures and new empirical evidence, we address whether educational expansion is an effective tool for reducing inequality.

20 September 2024

Student visas down by a sixth will cause challenges for some universities

Comment

IFS responds to new study visa application statistics.

12 September 2024

Free childcare for the under-2s will mean big savings for some parents – but wider impacts are anyone’s guess

Comment

How might new childcare entitlements for under-2s affect families? Who uses formal childcare already? And will the new entitlements be deliverable?

2 September 2024

Why are universities in financial trouble?

Podcast

Why are universities struggling, what happens if they go bust and what can government do to help? What other challenges do the HE and FE sectors face?

21 August 2024