This report studies the long-run effect of the Education Maintenance Allowance on educational attainment, earnings and crime.

The Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), a weekly payment to students aged 16-19 from low-income backgrounds, was rolled out across the UK in 2004 with the aim of boosting participation in full-time ...

Rory is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario and a Research Associate at IFS. He was previously a PhD Scholar at the IFS. His fields of interest are Public ...

This report analyses the Scottish Government’s Budget for 2025–26, with chapters on tax strategy, school spending, public ...

Higher defence spending will be offset in the short term by lower spending on overseas aid ...

Today, the Office for National Statistics published new figures on government revenues, spending and borrowing.

Funding and spending growth are set to slow. Without a top-up, health spending will be flat in 2025–26 and tricky trade-offs ...

After £1.5 billion of in-year top-ups in the current financial year, 2024–25, the plans set out for day-to-day health and social care spending in the Scottish Budget for the coming year, 2025–26, now ...

In December, the Scottish Government announced their Budget for 2025-26. This suggested significant increases in spending compared to this year for many public services – but the real picture is not ...

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 ...