Mitigating the two-child limit policy would be an effective way to reduce child poverty, but designing an effective policy is ...

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 ...

The aim of the bill, as stated on the House of Commons Library website, is to “improve the safeguarding of children and to ...

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 ...

On 26 March, Rachel Reeves will respond to updated economic and fiscal forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). One key question is whether those forecasts put the Chancellor on ...

The Spring Forecast on 26 March is supposed to be a non-event: Rachel Reeves has committed to holding just one fiscal event per year, in the autumn. But given economic developments since October's ...

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

Christine Farquharson's presentation at the Nursery World Business Summit 2025, at America Square Conference Centre, London.

At this online event IFS researchers discussed what has changed since the Autumn, and what this means for the Chancellor's Spring Forecast.