In-year top-ups mean big increases in Scottish NHS spending this year – but that means plans for 2025–26 now look relatively ...

The government spent billions on support to help households with their energy bills in 2022–23. Could a better-designed ...

We apply our method to a fixed-effect model of team production and obtain estimates of complementarity in production.

How will the latest plans for spending in 2024–25 boost the amount that the Scottish Government has to spend next year and ...

It was under Dick Taverne’s lead that the modern IFS began to take shape. The Council was formed, funding was secured and a ...

How do changes in UK government revenues over time compare with what has been seen in other advanced countries?

This is a response by David Phillips to the Scottish Affairs Committee’s inquiry in to the Financing of the Scottish Government. David Phillips is an Associate Director at the Institute for Fiscal ...

This week, President Trump was inaugurated for his second term and announced plans to impose significant tariffs on imports. But what exactly are tariffs, and how do they work? In this episode, we ...

Private pensions constitute the largest component of household wealth in the UK, and the vast majority of employees are automatically enrolled into workplace pension plans. Drawing on ...

Paul has been director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 2011. He is a columnist for The Times, and is a regular contributor to other broadcast and print media. He is a visiting professor in ...

This report examines ethnic differences in pension participation in the UK following the nationwide roll-out of automatic enrolment, the drivers of those gaps, and the consequences for wealth ...

Rory is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario and a Research Associate at IFS. He was previously a PhD Scholar at the IFS. His fields of interest are Public ...