We examine the effect of the UK’s ‘Help to Buy’ schemes on housing affordability using a new approach to uncover effects for ...

Demand-side policies which relax borrowing constraints for homebuyers, with the aim of increasing homeownership, are ...

David Phillips, head of devolved and local government finance at the IFS, said: ‘While the Scottish Labour manifesto comes in at a beefy 98 pages, the big tax cuts or expansions in service provision ...

I prove that, in a simple but general framework, expected pass-through is unchanged by the presence of focal pricing constraints.

A manifesto with more support for families with children, but important question marks over how to fund its giveaways.

David Phillips, head of devolved and local government finance at IFS, said: ‘The Scottish Conservatives’ two flagship tax ...

Scotland has more funding and more powers, but the next Holyrood government still faces tough choices on tax, spending and ...

In this paper, we estimate average equivalized consumption measures across 367 local authority districts in Great Britain.

Three reforms to universal credit (UC), the UK’s main working-age means-tested benefit received by 6.6 million families, take ...

David Phillips, Head of Devolved and Local Government Finance at the IFS, said: ‘The Green Party’s Welsh manifesto offers ...

Many policy decisions involve trade-offs between lives and livelihoods. We provide estimates for a new welfare parameter that ...

AI is often predicted to raise productivity while displacing human work, yet organizational adoption remain uneven and ...