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

We study how financial markets and, in particular, changes in the price of and access to capital, in shape UK regional growth ...

In this paper, we propose a user-friendly estimator to implement the method of difference-in-differences with ordinal ...

We study how the timing of economic support measures during the COVID-19 pandemic affected household financial distress ...

The gap in employment rates between the best- and worst-performing areas is at its widest since 2005, says Christine Farquharson. In the final run up to the election, we answer your questions about ...

Inheritance tax is levied on wealth bequeathed at death, or given away shortly before death, above a threshold. Around 5% of all deaths attracted inheritance tax in 2022–23.

Under the current higher education funding system in England, the government pays around £22 billion to fund the education of each cohort of around 480,000 England-domiciled full-time undergraduate ...

How have household incomes evolved over your lifetime? What is the gap between rich and poor? How many people are there in poverty? Which groups are most likely to face poverty? These questions are ...

The Pensions Review – led by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in partnership with abrdn Financial Fairness Trust – is a big, 4 ½-year, project to comprehensively assess the consequences of current ...

In 2023–24, total UK government revenue is forecast to be £1.06 trillion, or 41% of gross domestic productGross domestic product (GDP) is a measure of an economy’s size. It is the monetary value of ...

This Briefing Note describes state pension provision in the United Kingdom from the inception of the basic state pension in 1948, following the Beveridge Report, to Pensions Act 2007 and the plans of ...

Originally published in Economic Review magazine which provides articles which make recent academic research accessible for A-level students, apply economic theory to real-world situations and sharpen ...