The online launch of 2026 IFS Annual Report on Education Spending in England, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.

Shortages of less qualified nursing assistants have no impact on patient mortality. Greater levels of hospital-specific experience among nurses reduces mortality. The most affected patients are those ...

The government has confirmed a 16% cash increase in overall council funding over 3 years – and a big redistribution between ...

With domestic-currency debt, a confidence crisis need not cause default, as monetary financing can shift default risk into ...

Short-staffed and less experienced nursing teams deliver worse outcomes in NHS hospitals – with some patient groups ...

The results show that supermarket openings have no meaningful effect on care home staffing. In the first year after opening, ...

In this paper, we study the impact of supermarket and warehouse openings on the labour supply of care workers in England.

We study whether in practice the Scottish Child Payment (SCP) creates disincentives to work.

Productivity is rising rapidly in English hospitals, but this has not translated into large falls in waiting times.

We unpack the Budget’s quieter tax changes, from EV policy to savings and investment reforms, and explore what these small ...

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This paper revisits the problem of power analysis and sample size calculations in randomised experiments.