We explore the evidence on early years policy and assess the government's Opportunity Mission, which aims to give every child ...

An expansion of discounter retailers coincided with declining retail and manufacturer concentration across most narrowly ...

We study how couples in the Medicare Part D program choose an insurance plan. Over seventy percent of enrollees choose the ...

This paper presents a computationally efficient method for binary classification using Manski’s (1975,1985) maximum score ...

IFS Deputy Director, Jonathan Cribb, delivered the presentation as part of CEPR's Economics of Longevity and Ageing ...

This paper examines the distributional consequences of capping nominal UK public sector wage growth for workers earning above £21,000 in the 2010s.

An in-depth look at the UK’s long-term fiscal risks, from ageing and pensions to climate change, and what can be done to secure the public finances.

With the Pensions Commission launched this week, this article outlines three focus areas from the IFS's Pension Review ...

Different methods of eliciting the Marginal Propensity to Consume give very different distributions. Mean MPCs range from below 0.1, indicating life-cycle consumers, to over 0.5, consistent with ...

We develop the concept of relative resource shares, defined as the fraction of total adult expenditure that women command within a household.

This review discusses the standards for tax software and puts forward recommendations for HMRC, software providers, agents and taxpayers.