Falls in funding for home students, a decline in international enrolments and higher labour costs put Scottish university ...

We show that resource windfalls to non-extractive municipalities between 2006 and 2018 changed the size and nature of local ...

We discuss how inheritance tax actually changed in the budget, who will be affected and whether it was a good idea.

Scotland’s income tax rises have likely increased tax avoidance and migration – but the size of the effects is uncertain.

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 Wales Public Services 2025 Programme is investigating the long-term financial, demographic and demand pressures confronting public services in Wales and possible responses. Hosted by Cardiff ...

Richard is a Co- Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and a Senior Research Fellow at IFS. He holds the David Ricardo Chair of Political Economy at ...

Mårten Palme is an Associate Professor at Stockholm University, previously at the Stockholm School of Economics, and a Research Fellow at the IFS. He has done research on income inequality, earnings ...