There have been increasing calls for reform of Plan 2 student loans, but there are no easy options for the Chancellor.

The government has decided to abolish the Carbon Price Support. This is a welcome development in the taxation of carbon ...

A manifesto pledging a bigger welfare state with or without independence, but which fails to properly confront the fiscal ...

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 ...

Using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) and Census data, we study multigenerational correlations in education across ...

A look at Welsh funding, tax powers, public services and the hard fiscal trade-offs facing whoever forms the next government.

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.

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 ...

LGiU is a think tank and local authority membership organisation as well as a registered charity; and what we are about is pretty simple. We are all about people and the places where we live: we are ...