The results show that supermarket openings have no meaningful effect on care home staffing. In the first year after opening, ...

In this paper, we study the impact of supermarket and warehouse openings on the labour supply of care workers in England.

We study whether in practice the Scottish Child Payment (SCP) creates disincentives to work.

Productivity is rising rapidly in English hospitals, but this has not translated into large falls in waiting times.

How will changes announced at Budget 2025 affect SEND spending in future? How can the government deal with historic deficits ...

We unpack the Budget’s quieter tax changes, from EV policy to savings and investment reforms, and explore what these small ...

We provide new empirical facts on the formation of subjective expectation regarding rarely studied local house price changes.

Using German pension records and exogenous policy variation, we identify behavioral responses to changes in benefit ...

This paper offers practical advice on increasing statistical power in randomised experiments via design, implementation and ...

This paper revisits the problem of power analysis and sample size calculations in randomised experiments.

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We are pleased to announce that our research on the effects of Sure Start on children’s outcomes has been awarded ONS' Impact ...