We find treatment during ages 8-15 improves test scores at age 16, raises enrollment in education post-18 and leads to higher ...

We look at what UK defence spending pays for, how it’s changed, and what rising budgets could mean for the economy and military capabilities.

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

We study the effect of the introduction of the UK Shared Parental Leave policy in 2015 on both the uptake and the length of ...

Since April 2017, the ‘two-child limit’ has meant that families on universal credit (or, previously, child tax credit) no longer receive an uplift to their benefits for their third and subsequent ...

Helen joined the IFS in 2007. She has almost two decades of experience analysing UK fiscal policy and providing trusted advice to policymakers. Her work has been published in top peer reviewed ...

Despite its economy growing, Ethiopia tax base has not kept pace. This is due to a complicated legacy of former and current ...

We explore labour market participation of Italian pensioners between 2004 and 2017, exploiting a dataset that combines ...

This report studies a group disproportionately affected by state pension age increases: those who had left paid work before ...

We study how the diffusion of online dating platforms has shaped intermarriage patterns by race and education in the United ...

UK ‘right to request’ flexible working reform led more women to work reduced hours. There was no comparable rise in men’s use ...

Over the 2010s those starting their working lives in the public sector became increasingly likely to be highly educated ...