An in-depth look at the UK’s long-term fiscal risks, from ageing and pensions to climate change, and what can be done to ...

We develop the concept of relative resource shares, defined as the fraction of total adult expenditure that women command ...

Different methods of eliciting the Marginal Propensity to Consume give very different distributions.

This review discusses the standards for tax software and puts forward recommendations for HMRC, software providers, agents ...

Should the OBR publish only one forecast a year? Or are there better ways to discourage Chancellors from excessive policy ...

It is welcome that the new Pensions Commission will assess the adequacy of the retirement savings of today’s working-age ...

IFS Research Fellow, Laura Abramovsky, delivered the presentation in Helsinki as part of the UNU-WIDER's flagship conference ...

One year into Labour’s government, we assess whether its mission-driven approach has changed how it governs and what progress ...

What are the Chancellor’s options if – and it is very much an if – the upcoming Spring Forecast puts her on track to miss her fiscal targets?

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 ...

In this Briefing Note, we critically appraise the government's assertion that cohabiting couples are more likley to seperate than married couples.