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

We use k-means clustering, a machine learning technique, and Health and Retirement Study data to identify health types during ...

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

Use these charts to compare policies for reducing child poverty and to examine how child poverty rates have changed over time ...

We measure health inequality during middle and old age by race, ethnicity, and gender.

The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has a problem. She has committed herself to a rule that public debt should be falling — ...

In her recent speech at the 2024 Labour Party conference, the new Chancellor Rachel Reeves promised that the fiscal event on 30 October will be a ‘Budget for investment’. She said that ‘growth is the ...

1. The new government has accepted the pay recommendations of the independent Pay Review Bodies (PRBs), meaning that public sector employees will see their pay increase by between 4¾% and 6% in ...

Professor Sir Richard Blundell, Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the IFS will be giving the Marshall Paley Lecture on inequalities. Blundell, also ...

Paul has been director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 2011. He is a columnist for The Times, and is a regular contributor to other broadcast and print media. He is a visiting professor in ...

The public sector pay bill was £270 billion last year and so even small changes in pay can have large impacts on public spending. In accepting independent Pay Review Body recommendations, the ...