We evaluate the introduction of freestanding Emergency Care Centers within Brazil’s publicly funded health system, leveraging ...

Reform UK says it would cut income tax in Scotland if it wins the Scottish Parliament election in May. Objective analysis of economic policy is more important now than it has ever been. You can join ...

Using Global Minds data across 44 countries over the period 2020–25 we confirm that ill-being is no longer hump-shaped in age ...

We propose a novel measure of intergenerational welfare mobility, “value-value” slope, including both pecuniary and ...

Why isn’t the NHS improving faster? We unpack waiting lists, winter pressures, productivity and reform plans - and ask ...

As a result, the hump shape in despair by age, which we can see here in the dark line which shows the years 2009 to 2018, has ...

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 ...

This report shows the extent to which low pay and unemployment are related, the effects of periods out of work on future earnings and the degree to which low pay is a persistent phenomenon.

Summary of new research on the scale and sources of regional inequalities and policy implications.

On the benefits side, a new £40 per week ‘baby’ rate of the Scottish child payment for children under 1 year of age will be introduced from April 2027, an increase of more than a third. This will ...

This paper examines the UK’s current tax and disability trust framework and argues for a broader, more accessible range of ...

Using the 1937 introduction of antibiotics, we study how childhood pneumonia affects adult education, employment, income, and ...