The Spring Forecast is unlikely to feature policy changes but could highlight risks to the public finances for the year ahead ...

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This paper investigates the effects of alleviating remoteness constraints on access to quality maternal and newborn health ...

We estimate the economic impacts of rape using population-wide Finnish police reports and hospital admissions.

ONS figures released today show borrowing in the first 10 months of the year is £15 billion below the same months last year.

<p><p>This Commentary analyses recent trends in household spending, with a focus on domestic fuel and water, and examines the impact of changes in the price of these goods on household inflation, ...

This Briefing Note describes state pension provision in the United Kingdom from the inception of the basic state pension in 1948, following the Beveridge Report, to Pensions Act 2007 and the plans of ...

<p>Dimensions of Tax Design brings together a high-profile group of more than fifty international experts and younger researchers. It consists of a set of thirteen commissioned studies which draw on ...

<p>In this paper, we offer and discuss new evidence on the performance of British Telecom (BT) before and after privatisation. We use a unique data-set based on company accounts over 40 years (1960-99 ...

Lars Nesheim is a Professor of Economics at UCL and Co-Director of the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap). After obtaining his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2001, he worked for ...

LGiU is a think tank and local authority membership organisation as well as a registered charity; and what we are about is pretty simple. We are all about people and the places where we live: we are ...

Rory is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario and a Research Associate at IFS. He was previously a PhD Scholar at the IFS. His fields of interest are Public ...