Many economic panel and dynamic models, such as rational behavior and Euler equations, imply that the parameters of interest ...

The persuasion rate is a key parameter for measuring the causal effect of a directional message on influencing the ...

France’s failed budget highlights fundamental challenges with public debt, slow growth, and the need for significant reforms.

The government’s recent ‘Get Britain Working’ white paper restated their ambitious target to get 80% of 16-64-year-olds into ...

Clara's interests lie in public and labour economics. She joined the Institute for Fiscal Studies in 2021 while completing her Master of Research in Economics. In 2023, she earned the three-years IFS ...

Carl is Deputy Director of the IFS, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, an editor of the annual IFS Green Budget and a Director of the Pensions Review. His research includes issues around the ...

2024/25 childcare funding rates offer real-terms protection for the early years budget, with a boost to the funding top-up ...

The state pension age will increase again from 66 to 67 between 2026 and 2028. This will yield substantial savings (around £6 billion per year) for the public purse, but will also disproportionately ...

The means-tested benefit system provides important support to low-income households both before and after state pension age. It is significantly more generous for those above the state pension age, ...

Paula is an Enrichment student at IFS, a PhD student in Economics and a tutor for the economics related courses in the Health Economics and Decision Science MSc at UCL. Paula's research interests ...

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 ...