The government has published the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement for 2025–26, setting out funding allocations for English councils next year. This confirms an important shift in grant ...
Funding for pupils with special educational needs in England increased by 59% or £4 billion between 2015 and 2024. A further £1 billion announced in the recent Budget will take total funding to £12 ...
This paper develops a novel method for policy choice in a dynamic setting where the available data is a multi-variate time series. Building on the statistical treatment choice framework, we propose ...
The UK’s housing market has long been a source of frustration for renters and homeowners alike, with issues of affordability and availability topping the agenda. The new government has identified ...
In UK data, I document the prevalence of misbeliefs regarding the State Pension eligibility age (SPA) and these misbeliefs predictivity of retirement. Exploiting policy variation, I estimate a ...
Air pollution in England, specifically levels of PM 2.5 (tiny particles that penetrate deep into the lungs), has halved since 2003, with a large and lasting drop during the COVID-19 pandemic. The fall ...
Today, we’re turning our attention to France, where a recent Budget has sparked intense debate and raised major questions about the country’s economic future. France is tackling some big economic ...
Childcare funding rates largely protected in real terms - with a big uplift for disadvantage premium
The government yesterday announced a £2-billion injection of funding into England’s early years system. The vast majority of this increase is in line with plans set out at the March 2023 Budget, to ...
The harmful effects of air pollution on health are increasingly well known. Broadly, air pollution has been shown to damage many aspects of health, particularly for the elderly and young children (see ...
This paper studies tax evasion and the contribution-benefit link in the context of maternity benefits in Hungary. Earnings and employment patterns suggest pre-pregnancy underreporting, followed by ...
We consider estimation and inference for a regression coefficient in panels with interactive fixed effects (i.e., with a factor structure). We demonstrate that existing estimators and confidence ...
The persuasion rate is a key parameter for measuring the causal effect of a directional message on influencing the recipient’s behavior. Its identification has relied on exogenous treatment or the ...
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