This comment compares the political parties’ main proposals for schools in Wales at the upcoming 2026 Welsh elections.

While their visions differ, all parties’ plans would add to the fiscal challenges facing the next Welsh Government – albeit ...

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

We are pleased to announce the 8th World Bank/ODI Global/IFS Public Finance Conference, taking place in Washington on the ...

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

We are pleased to announce the publication of 'Challenging Inequalities', our rigorous, evidence-based account of inequality ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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