We show that how countries disburse tax credits matters for economic incidence by exploiting reform to the disbursement of ...

The Police National Computer database records information about offending behaviour for people over age 10 (the age of criminal responsibility). The data contains information about offences committed ...

The Frisch labor supply elasticity plays a key role in many economic policy debates, but its magnitude remains controversial.

The new Chancellor faces a difficult fiscal inheritance. Her choices on tax and spending at this first Budget could define the rest of the parliament. Life expectancy gaps between gender and income ...

A panel of scientific experts is set to provide education policy makers with advice on strategic and emerging issues.

The Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson, has announced he will step down in summer 2025 to become Provost of Queen’s College, Oxford. The IFS would like to express its huge ...

The budget coming up in a few weeks will be one of the big moments for Labour to set out their policy agenda.

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 paper estimates the responsiveness of retirement saving to tax incentives for employees in Great Britain.

Why do so few people move from incapacity benefits into work? What does this mean for government plans to get more people ...