An in-depth look at the UK’s long-term fiscal risks, from ageing and pensions to climate change, and what can be done to ...

Should the OBR publish only one forecast a year? Or are there better ways to discourage Chancellors from excessive policy ...

Different methods of eliciting the Marginal Propensity to Consume give very different distributions.

It is welcome that the new Pensions Commission will assess the adequacy of the retirement savings of today’s working-age ...

We develop the concept of relative resource shares, defined as the fraction of total adult expenditure that women command ...

This review discusses the standards for tax software and puts forward recommendations for HMRC, software providers, agents ...

IFS Research Fellow, Laura Abramovsky, delivered the presentation in Helsinki as part of the UNU-WIDER's flagship conference ...

The government is reportedly considering changing student loans and pensions for resident doctors. We consider the merits of ...

One year into Labour’s government, we assess whether its mission-driven approach has changed how it governs and what progress ...

Lars Nesheim is a Professor of Economics at UCL and Co-Director of the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap).

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