Burnham has spoken of creating a new politics in which government levels with the public about difficult decisions. That ...

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 ...

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Divorce reshapes family life, yet little is known about one of its most consequential features: the allocation of child ...

James Callaghan (Labour Chancellor at the time) had made a speech announcing his intentions to make far-reaching changes to the tax system in his next Budget, including a capital gains tax and a ...

Andy Burnham faces difficult choices over tax, borrowing and public spending. How much room will the new Prime Minister have ...

How have household incomes evolved over your lifetime? What is the gap between rich and poor? How many people are there in poverty? Which groups are most likely to face poverty? These questions are ...

Could devolution boost UK growth, or would it widen regional divides? We ask what shifting power from Westminster would ...

Spending on public support for early childhood education and care is the fastest-growing part of the education system, and one of the areas where public service spending has increased most quickly ...

<p class="p1">Andy Burnham faces difficult choices over tax, borrowing and public spending. How much room will the new Prime Minister have to act?</p> ...

We examine the relationship between childhood socio-emotional skills and labour market outcomes using the 1970 British Cohort ...