We explore the evidence on early years policy and assess the government's Opportunity Mission, which aims to give every child ...

An expansion of discounter retailers coincided with declining retail and manufacturer concentration across most narrowly ...

We study how couples in the Medicare Part D program choose an insurance plan. Over seventy percent of enrollees choose the ...

This paper presents a computationally efficient method for binary classification using Manski’s (1975,1985) maximum score ...

IFS Deputy Director, Jonathan Cribb, delivered the presentation as part of CEPR's Economics of Longevity and Ageing ...

With the Pensions Commission launched this week, this article outlines three focus areas from the IFS's Pension Review ...

Which public services are the relative winners and losers from Rachel Reeves’ multi-year 2025 Spending Review?

The government spent around £1.1 trillion, or 40.6% of national income, on our behalf in 2023-24. This was composed of different categories of spending - e.g. health, education, and benefit spending - ...

The reforms announced today, to be implemented or consulted on, represent a fundamental change to the way that the state supports out-of-work people.

A new IFS report released today, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Health Foundation, finds a range of evidence that mental health has worsened since the pandemic. This is consistent ...

Executive summary The justice system is an important part of how the government upholds the law and maintains public order, making it a significant area of responsibility. In England and Wales, the ...