Delays in serious court cases are at record highs. We ask why the Crown Court backlog is growing—and if more money alone can solve it.

IFS Senior Research Economist Kate Ogden writes in Municipal Journal about what the 2025 Spending Review will mean for public ...

This year's RES Conference features a special session on the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities with key IFS contributors to ...

At the 2023 Spring Budget, then-Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the largest-ever expansion of publicly funded childcare entitlements, offering new entitlements for working families with children aged ...

Agar is a Professor of Economics at the University of Venice and a Research Fellow of the IFS. She has investigated the behaviour of individuals and household both in the area of consumption and ...

Clara's interests lie in public and labour economics. She joined the Institute for Fiscal Studies in 2021 while completing her Master of Science in Economics. In 2023, she earned the three-years IFS ...

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 ...

Giulio is an IFS Research Associate and a professor in the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London. His main research fields are theoretical labour economics and ...

Jonathan is an Assistant Professor and the Helen and O.N. Mitchell, Jr Faculty Fellow in Real Estate at the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University and a Research Associate at IFS and cemmap. His ...

Paul has been director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 2011. He is a columnist for The Times, and is a regular contributor to other broadcast and print media. He is a visiting professor in ...

David is an Associate Director and helps lead two main areas of research at the Institute. First is work on devolved and local government finance, with a particular focus on the distribution of ...

Professor Bruce Chapman is an economist and has worked at The Australian National University since 1984. He has extensive experience in public policy, including: the motivation and design of the ...