The online launch of 2026 IFS Annual Report on Education Spending in England, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.

Shortages of less qualified nursing assistants have no impact on patient mortality. Greater levels of hospital-specific experience among nurses reduces mortality. The most affected patients are those ...

The government has confirmed a 16% cash increase in overall council funding over 3 years – and a big redistribution between ...

With domestic-currency debt, a confidence crisis need not cause default, as monetary financing can shift default risk into ...

Short-staffed and less experienced nursing teams deliver worse outcomes in NHS hospitals – with some patient groups ...

The results show that supermarket openings have no meaningful effect on care home staffing. In the first year after opening, ...

In this paper, we study the impact of supermarket and warehouse openings on the labour supply of care workers in England.

We study whether in practice the Scottish Child Payment (SCP) creates disincentives to work.

This paper offers practical advice on increasing statistical power in randomised experiments via design, implementation and ...

At this online event, IFS researchers will discuss how rising house prices shaped young people’s social mobility.

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 ...

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 ...