We are pleased to announce the 8th World Bank/ODI Global/IFS Public Finance Conference, taking place in Washington on the ...

We are pleased to announce the publication of 'Challenging Inequalities', our rigorous, evidence-based account of inequality ...

We examine the effect of the UK’s ‘Help to Buy’ schemes on housing affordability using a new approach to uncover effects for ...

The government has decided to abolish Carbon Price Support. This is a welcome development in the taxation of carbon emissions ...

A manifesto with more support for families with children, but important question marks over how to fund its giveaways.

Using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) and Census data, we study multigenerational correlations in education across ...

Demand-side policies which relax borrowing constraints for homebuyers, with the aim of increasing homeownership, are ...

There have been increasing calls for reform of Plan 2 student loans, but there are no easy options for the Chancellor.

A look at Welsh funding, tax powers, public services and the hard fiscal trade-offs facing whoever forms the next government.

David Phillips, head of devolved and local government finance at the IFS, said: ‘While the Scottish Labour manifesto comes in at a beefy 98 pages, the big tax cuts or expansions in service provision ...

Scotland has more funding and more powers, but the next Holyrood government still faces tough choices on tax, spending and ...

In this paper, we estimate average equivalized consumption measures across 367 local authority districts in Great Britain.