The government has confirmed a 16% cash increase in overall council funding over 3 years – and a big redistribution between ...

Short-staffed and less experienced nursing teams deliver worse outcomes in NHS hospitals – with some patient groups ...

With domestic-currency debt, a confidence crisis need not cause default, as monetary financing can shift default risk into ...

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

Shortages of less qualified nursing assistants have no impact on patient mortality. Greater levels of hospital-specific experience among nurses reduces mortality. The most affected patients are those ...

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

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

The online launch of 2026 IFS Annual Report on Education Spending in England, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.

As ever the big-picture choices in the Budget dominated media coverage - but some of the most interesting changes were buried in the detail. From electric vehicles to tourist tax, how much do these ...

After falling sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic, productivity in English hospitals now seems to be growing again. NHS England reported earlier this year that hospital productivity grew by 2.7% in ...

We are pleased to announce that our research on the short- and medium-term effects of Sure Start on children’s outcomes has been awarded the Impact of Analysis Award as part of the ONS’ 2025 Research ...

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 ...