The UK minimum wage has increased by more than 70% in real terms since 1999. What’s it doing to jobs, prices and profits - ...

We evaluate the introduction of freestanding Emergency Care Centers within Brazil’s publicly funded health system, leveraging ...

Using Global Minds data across 44 countries over the period 2020–25 we confirm that ill-being is no longer hump-shaped in age ...

We propose a novel measure of intergenerational welfare mobility, “value-value” slope, including both pecuniary and ...

Reform UK says it would cut income tax in Scotland if it wins the Scottish Parliament election in May. Objective analysis of economic policy is more important now than it has ever been. You can join ...

As a result, the hump shape in despair by age, which we can see here in the dark line which shows the years 2009 to 2018, has ...

An IFS event discussing new research on the UK fiscal framework, its limitations, and options for longer-term reform.

From the mid 1990s to the mid 2000s, the UK experienced a dramatic surge in house prices, with the average house price rising from around four times annual earnings in 1995 to eight times by 2010 ...

We study the impact of the UK house price boom on the intergenerational persistence of homeownership, housing wealth, location and earnings. Using price variation driven by geographic differences in ...

Regional inequalities in the UK are large and persistent. People across the country face vastly different opportunities in jobs, pay and career progression. What drives these spatial disparities, 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 ...