This paper examines tax non-compliance among individuals in Germany who were legally required to file a tax return but failed to do so.

We study how poorly-behaved children affect learning and other outcomes of their peers using data froma unique experiment in Ecuador.

This paper examines how the quality of government spending changes at the end of the fiscal year, using administrative data from financing programmes for small and medium-sized enterprises in South ...

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has announced a major and welcome change to the triple lock, which will come into effect in ...

New IFS analysis sets out potential savings from triple lock reform.

Responding to today’s ONS figures on the public finances, Nick Ridpath, Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal ...

The government has announced a major change to the state pension triple lock. The new system will continue to protect pensions against inflation and guarantee increases of at least 2.5%, but changes ...

Should utilities such as water, energy and transport come under public control? In deciding, the government needs to confront important trade-offs.

Work experience has been found to be a key determinant of work and wages for educated women, but it seems to play a smaller role for the less educated ...

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How does PIP work, why are claims rising and what choices does the government face as it considers reforming disability benefits?

Ministry of Justice day-to-day spending fell 33% in real terms between 2007-08 and 2016-17, compared with a 3% reduction ...