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

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

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

At this online event, researchers from IFS and Nesta will present the latest trends on child poverty, and how the two-child ...

How the UK’s income tax system is poorly designed - and how reforms could make it fairer, simpler, and more efficient.

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

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

We explore the UK’s public finances and why further fiscal consolidation may be needed to meet the government’s borrowing and ...

<p>Recent UK economic history has been characterised by high levels of unemployment, coupled with a high nominal Public Sector Borrowing Requirement (PSBR). It is no surprise that the two should ...

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 ...

Tom is a Senior Research Economist in the Income, Work and Welfare sector at IFS. His research covers the design and effects of tax and benefit policy, including how they affect families’ labour ...