The goal is to tailor these to the needs of local industries and to combine skills training with practical work experience.

How have earnings, employment and housing changed for different generations of young adults? Do you think your generation is ...

As a result of the VAT cut announced today, households will benefit from small cuts to their electricity bills. But the ...

Business rates have gone from being one of the most stable and simple taxes in the system to one of the least.

This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence on delaying children’s smartphone ownership through a community-led ...

In a turbulent world, effective policy requires granular estimates of firm responses to shocks as they unfold.

New ONS data show that higher-than-expected inflation pushed up government spending more than revenues between April and June ...

An assigned share of tax revenues will mean local areas share more in the rewards of growth – but also brings risks.

Challenging Inequalities, written by seven of the world's foremost economists and social scientists including ex IFS Director ...

Professor Philippe Aghion will give the 2026 IFS Annual Lecture on "Are Ideas Harder to Find, Overall?" ...