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On the benefits side, a new £40 per week ‘baby’ rate of the Scottish child payment for children under 1 year of age will be ...

Using the 1937 introduction of antibiotics, we study how childhood pneumonia affects adult education, employment, income, and ...

We propose a new approach to estimate selection-corrected quantiles of the gender wage gap.

We study the impact of the UK house price boom on the intergenerational persistence of homeownership, housing wealth, ...

Children of parents who benefited from the 1990s house price boom subsequently had more housing wealth and were more likely ...

This presentation 'The economic, fiscal and funding outlook' was given by David Phillips and Kate Ogden at the Local ...

What are IFS experts looking out for in 2026? We discuss rising unemployment, benefit reforms, and whether new technologies ...

Governments frequently rely on multiple actors to deliver technology-adoption policies at scale, yet we find that information ...

At this in-person policy conference, researchers will present new evidence on the scale and causes of regional inequalities.

My book Left Behind drew on recent academic advances that analyse why the life chances of young people in the same country ...

This paper investigates how the link between opportunity and childhood varies in England.