Britain faces high debt, high borrowing costs, rising taxes and stretched public services. We explain the fiscal reality ...

Why UK electricity prices are so high, how renewables affect costs, and what government can do to protect households from ...

Scottish Government funding likely to fall in 2027–28, meaning manifesto pledges could force spending cuts or increases to ...

How has entry into the public sector among graduates from top universities changed following the growth of finance, tech and ...

Twentieth-century U.S. data confirm the predictions, rank-based measures co-move while the intergenerational elasticity ...

A 5p cut to fuel duties was first implemented as a one-year measure in March 2022, but has been repeatedly extended ever ...

Originally published in VoxDev, this comment looks at the effect of community health teams on health outcomes in low- and ...

We provide novel evidence on bureaucratic fragmentation and weak tax administrations as central enablers of low revenue mobilization in low-income countries. In collaboration with the municipal and ...

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 ...

The new Plaid Cymru government faces a difficult fiscal outlook – and the need to find common ground with other parties.

In last November’s Budget, the Chancellor announced that salary sacrifice pension contributions above £2,000 per year will be liable for both employer and employee National Insurance contributions ...