Lord Taverne made three crucial contributions to the IFS that formed the foundations from which it has grown.

In Britain, the headline relative in-work poverty rate steadily rose from 13.4% in 1994–95 to 18.4% in 2019–20. We study the ...

An analysis of the key design considerations and potential impacts of council tax reform in Scotland.

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We argue the change in individuals’ Lorenz ordinates—their positions in the Lorenz curve—is informative about economic ...

How has the two-child limit affected child poverty and other outcomes? What options for altering this policy does the ...

The triple lock creates unpredictability in public spending and disproportionately benefits better-off pensioners. A better ...

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Responding to today’s ONS figures on the public finances, Nick Ridpath, Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal ...

The Draft Welsh Budget, if passed in its current form, would increase risks to public services and the public finances.

Join us in-person or online for a debate on how to approach reforming the taxation of housing.

Despite some convergence, the gender pay gap remains large. In this study, we use BHPS-USoc data to document the evolution of the gender pay gap in the UK over the past 25 years and its association ...