We find evidence that the passage of “DNA laws” streamlining access to forensic DNA technology was a watershed in the ...

Conflict in the Middle East has pushed up energy prices. We examine how this compares to past shocks and the government's options going forward.

The government is in the process of conducting a review of universal credit (UC), the main means-tested benefit for working-age people, received by 6.3 million families at any one time. This report ...

Council tax support (CTS) is a benefit that assists the poorest households in paying their council tax, by providing a reduction on their bills. It operates separat ...

IFS researchers respond to the Chancellor’s Spring Forecast, which was presented against an uncertain global backdrop with ...

We study the role of Gender Role Attitudes (GRA)—beliefs about appropriate roles for men and women—in marital sorting and intra-household allocations.

This comment explores how young workers are matched to firms in local labour markets in England, using the Longitudinal ...

Reform UK's Welsh manifesto echoes Conservative proposals while leaving the spending cuts needed to fund its tax ambitions ...

From the start of April, the state pension age will start rising from 66, reaching 67 in early 2028. This upcoming change was announced in 2011 and legislated in 2014, in response to higher life ...

Spring Forecast: headline numbers look steady but higher energy prices could lift UK inflation, rates and borrowing faster than expected.

We analyze anticipatory effects associated with the EU’s Directive on Public Country-by-Country Reporting.

David Phillips, head of devolved and local government finance at the IFS, said: “The Welsh Conservatives’ flagship proposals are reductions to three of Wales’s devolved taxes: the Welsh rates of ...