Institute for Fiscal Studies16h
Two-child limit mitigation in Scotland would help larger poor families but policy design could harm work incentives
Mitigating the two-child limit policy would be an effective way to reduce child poverty, but designing an effective policy is ...
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The Schools Bill: what's changing and why?
The aim of the bill, as stated on the House of Commons Library website, is to “improve the safeguarding of children and to ...
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Various indicators point to a deterioration in population mental health – likely contributing to rising disability benefit caseloads
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 ...
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Rethinking the Education Maintenance Allowance: Lessons from a long-term analysis
The Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), introduced in the UK in 1999, represented an ambitious attempt to boost post-16 education participation among disadvantaged youth. By providing weekly ...
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David Phillips
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 ...