Teenagers affected by austerity-induced youth club closures performed 4% worse in exams at age 16 and became 14% more likely ...

Youth clubs are community-based after-school programmes, typically offered free of charge to teenagers in underprivileged ...

After a post-pandemic fall-off, NHS hospital productivity has increased over the last year, with hospital activity growing ...

Tax and spending will increase by a huge 5% of national income this decade, but most of that increase occurred under the last ...

Increases in taxes and borrowing are not costless and the spending plans after 2025-26 are unlikely to survive contact with ...

IFS Director Paul Johnson responds to the overall picture for taxation, spending and the public finances in the Autumn 2024 ...

Following a bulge in claims, recent figures suggest new disability benefits may not pose as big a cost to the Scottish Budget ...

We respond to government plans to increase the cap on tuition fees for England-domiciled undergraduate students.

We are pleased to announce the appointment of François Gerard as TaxDev ’s new Research Director. TaxDev is a collaboration ...

Objective analysis of economic policy is more important now than it has ever been. You can join our network and help improve ...

With birth rates at record lows, we ask what the implications are for the UK and how it might impact the public finances.

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