Using a policy change in Australia during COVID-19, we find that self-control issues significantly predictearly withdrawals ...

But inequality is not just about money. It shapes people’s opportunities, education, health, family life and where they live.

Britain faces high debt, high borrowing costs, rising taxes and stretched public services. We explain the fiscal reality ...

Scottish Government funding likely to fall in 2027–28, meaning manifesto pledges could force spending cuts or increases to ...

David Phillips, head of devolved and local government finance at IFS, said: ‘In a pattern familiar by now from several other manifestos in the devolved elections, the SNP manifesto pledges additional ...

David Phillips, Head of Devolved and Local Government Finance at IFS, said: ‘Plaid Cymru have been criticised by some for pledging a myriad of reviews of health and education policy and performance.

Plans to significantly cut Scottish income tax rates are front and centre of Reform UK’s Scottish manifesto. Initial cuts – setting each tax rate 1 percentage point below that in the rest of the UK – ...

Last month, the government published the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement, setting out funding allocations for English councils for the three years from 2026–27 to 2028–29. These ...

One source of regional inequality in job opportunities and productivity is unequal access to financial capital. Using new data on large-scale real estate investmentsi over the past two decades, Daams, ...

Responding to the Scottish Budget and Spending Review, David Phillips, head of devolved and local government finance at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said: “In this pre-election Budget the ...

This was another big Budget. The Treasury’s scorecard contained seventy-five separate new measures. There were meaningful increases in tax, spending, and borrowing. I’ll leave my colleagues to walk ...

Originally published in Economic Review magazine which provides articles to make recent academic research accessible for A-level students, apply economic theory to real-world situations and sharpen ...