How have public sector pay and employment changed in Scotland in recent years and what are the implications of those changes?

By 2040, the number of pupils in Scotland is projected to be 90,000 lower than in 2024. Policymakers face a major choice over ...

We borrowed and spent more than other countries to respond to the pandemic and the sharp rise in energy prices two years ...

We present the first consistent estimates of what has happened to Ministry of Justice funding since the early 2000s and put ...

Council tax in Scotland – as in England – is out of date, regressive and distortionary. How should it be reformed, and what ...

The OBR forecast will underpin the Chancellor’s decisions at the next Spring Forecast. As the OBR comes up with its forecast, which will underpin the Chancellor’s decisions at the Spring Forecast, one ...

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 ...

Young people at risk of getting involved in violence are those in most of need of therapeutic support, but most unlikely to receive it. The Your Choice programme aims to shift how such therapeutic ...

At just under £8 billion, spending on schools and childcare is the second-largest area of public service spending in Scotland, behind spending on health. While councils rather than the Scottish ...

This Working Paper is an update of Intergenerational mobility in socio-emotional skills This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of socio-emotional skills during childhood, using ...