How can the public sector do more with less? We explore productivity trends, government reform and lessons from private ...

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

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 ...

This Unit brings together child poverty policy officials and analysts to take the Government’s child poverty strategy to its next stage of development. The role of the Unit is to: provide an ...

David is an Associate Director and helps lead two main areas of research at the Institute. First is work on devolved and local government finance, with a particular focus on the distribution of ...

The government has today published a policy statement outlining its plans for local government funding in England.

Measuring how assortative matching differs between two economies is difficult, we show how the use of different measures can ...

Healthcare is the Scottish Government’s largest area of spending. The NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care budget is planned to be £20.6 billion this year, around one-third of the total Scottish ...

Helen is Deputy Director of the IFS and Head of the Tax sector. Her main research interests are the effects of the tax system on individuals and firms behaviour and the design of tax policy. Her ...

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation makes grants primarily to support original research and education related to science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics. The Foundation believes that ...

Mårten Palme is an Associate Professor at Stockholm University, previously at the Stockholm School of Economics, and a Research Fellow at the IFS. He has done research on income inequality, earnings ...