In UK data, I document the prevalence of misbeliefs regarding the State Pension eligibility age (SPA) and these misbeliefs predictivity of retirement. Exploiting policy variation, I estimate a ...

Paul has been director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 2011. He is a columnist for The Times, and is a regular contributor to other broadcast and print media. He is a visiting professor in ...

English councils’ core spending power set to increase 3.8% in real-terms next year, but increases will vary hugely across the country.

We discuss how taxes like capital gains, stamp duty, and council tax impact the housing market, affecting affordability, ...

Many economic panel and dynamic models, such as rational behavior and Euler equations, imply that the parameters of interest ...

The persuasion rate is a key parameter for measuring the causal effect of a directional message on influencing the ...

The government’s recent ‘Get Britain Working’ white paper restated their ambitious target to get 80% of 16-64-year-olds into ...

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 ...

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

The means-tested benefit system provides important support to low-income households both before and after state pension age. It is significantly more generous for those above the state pension age, ...

The government yesterday announced a £2-billion injection of funding into England’s early years system. The vast majority of this increase is in line with plans set out at the March 2023 Budget, to ...