The results show that supermarket openings have no meaningful effect on care home staffing. In the first year after opening, ...

In this paper, we study the impact of supermarket and warehouse openings on the labour supply of care workers in England.

We study whether in practice the Scottish Child Payment (SCP) creates disincentives to work.

We provide new empirical facts on the formation of subjective expectation regarding rarely studied local house price changes.

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Productivity is rising rapidly in English hospitals, but this has not translated into large falls in waiting times.

This paper revisits the problem of power analysis and sample size calculations in randomised experiments.

This paper offers practical advice on increasing statistical power in randomised experiments via design, implementation and ...

At this online event, IFS researchers will discuss how rising house prices shaped young people’s social mobility.

We study the phased introduction of London’s Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), a tax on highly-polluting vehicles.

We unpack the Budget’s quieter tax changes, from EV policy to savings and investment reforms, and explore what these small ...