Governments frequently rely on multiple actors to deliver technology-adoption policies at scale, yet we find that information ...

At this in-person policy conference, researchers will present new evidence on the scale and causes of regional inequalities.

My book Left Behind drew on recent academic advances that analyse why the life chances of young people in the same country ...

This paper investigates how the link between opportunity and childhood varies in England.

In this paper, we propose a user-friendly estimator to implement the method of difference-in-differences with ordinal ...

We study how financial markets and, in particular, changes in the price of and access to capital, in shape UK regional growth ...

We study how the timing of economic support measures during the COVID-19 pandemic affected household financial distress ...

Rachel Reeves made a number of big choices in her first Budget. She chose to increase borrowing in order to increase investment spending – or at least to stop it falling as a fraction of national ...

Ben Zaranko, Associate Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies said: "If the UK needs to spend more on defence on a structural and permanent basis, that is not something that can be sustainably ...

There are well-documented ethnic inequalities in the labour market. While it has on occasion been suggested that these may stem from differences in characteristics among those of different ethnic ...

Areas in England vary in how much funding they receive for public services, and in how much they would need to spend to deliver the same level of services to their populations. For example, an area ...

The ledgers of the public finances have rarely made for more dismal reading. Tax revenues are this year set to reach their highest level since the 1940s (and are forecast to rise further still).