How can the public sector do more with less? We explore productivity trends, government reform and lessons from private ...

Clara's interests lie in public and labour economics. She joined the Institute for Fiscal Studies in 2021 while completing her Master of Research in Economics. In 2023, she earned the three-years IFS ...

Lars Nesheim is a Professor of Economics at UCL and Co-Director of the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap). After obtaining his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2001, he worked for ...

This Unit brings together child poverty policy officials and analysts to take the Government’s child poverty strategy to its next stage of development. The role of the Unit is to: provide an ...

Young people at risk of getting involved in violence are those in most of need of therapeutic support, but most unlikely to receive it. The Your Choice programme aims to shift how such therapeutic ...

The government has today published a policy statement outlining its plans for local government funding in England.

How is the NHS in Scotland performing, and what does this mean for the Scottish Budget? Healthcare is the Scottish Government ...

Measuring how assortative matching differs between two economies is difficult, we show how the use of different measures can ...

The new government says housing market failures are one of the UK’s biggest barriers to growth. What part does tax have to play in this? How does tax affect the availability and affordability of ...

Helen is Deputy Director of the IFS and Head of the Tax sector. Her main research interests are the effects of the tax system on individuals and firms behaviour and the design of tax policy. Her ...