The persuasion rate is a key parameter for measuring the causal effect of a directional message on influencing the ...

France’s failed budget highlights fundamental challenges with public debt, slow growth, and the need for significant reforms.

The government’s recent ‘Get Britain Working’ white paper restated their ambitious target to get 80% of 16-64-year-olds into ...

2024/25 childcare funding rates offer real-terms protection for the early years budget, with a boost to the funding top-up ...

Use this interactive tool to explore how special educational needs prevalence, funding, and spending vary across local ...

The prime minister’s rhetoric on housebuilding is welcome, but it won’t be enough without a complete overhaul of the planning ...

We set out how air pollution (PM2.5) has changed across England and explore inequalities by ethnicity, income deprivation, ...

How can the public sector do more with less? We explore productivity trends, government reform and lessons from private ...

Our initial response to the Scottish Government’s budget for 2025-26. David Phillips, an associate director and head of ...

The strategy is a missed opportunity to set out a long-term plan for growth-enhancing reforms to Scotland’s tax system. This ...

We study spillover effects within criminal networks by leveraging the deaths of co-offenders as a source of causal ...

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 ...