Public sector pension rules are a mess that helps neither workers nor the government. Fixing them could be a win-win.

Public finance data out today show that borrowing overshot the official forecast made at last month's Spring Statement by £15 ...

Not for the first time we are facing a nasty economic shock. At such times it can be useful to learn from the past; and now is an especially auspicious moment to look back at one particular moment in ...

In this paper, we estimate average equivalised consumption measures across local authority districts in Great Britain. We use small-area estimation methods that combine information from a household ...

Living standards across areas can be measured in many ways. Common approaches are to look at differences in local productivity (which reflect differences in the earnings of those working, but not ...

If you measure living standards by looking at how much people spend on goods and services (excluding housing-related expenditures and adjusting for household size) you get a starkly different picture ...

Londoners may have the highest average incomes, but their household spending once you account for housing costs is lower than other regions.

This week, we’re looking at corporation tax, which was introduced 60 years ago. Across the decades there have been no shortage of predictions that corporate tax revenues will decline, and yet the tax ...

The government spent around £1.1 trillion, or 40.6% of national income, on our behalf in 2023-24. This was composed of different categories of spending - e.g. health, education, and benefit spending - ...

Total public spending in the UK stood at £1.1 trillion, or 40.6% of GDP, in 2023–24. Within this total, there are large regional differences in how much money the government spends, and in what it ...

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