Rising interest rates could put the government on track to miss its fiscal rules. What are the Chancellor’s options?

Our latest report on education spending in England shows how further education has faced some of the deepest funding cuts ...

If a recent rise in borrowing costs proved persistent, it will make it even harder for the Chancellor to continue to meet her ...

A government with a big majority should have had the political will to do more than just set up another review.

We study ten years of reforms in the United Kingdom which increased the ERA for women from 60 to 66.

New estimates by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) find that growth in mainstream school funding per pupil in England in 2025–26 (2.8% in cash terms) won’t be sufficient to cover the expected ...

The new government has high ambitions to improve education and reduce inequalities. However, like most governments in recent years, it faces a very challenging set of public finances, maybe even more ...

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 ...