David Kingman looks at the evidence surrounding whether doing a degree is worthwhile for a young person
David Kingman
New data highlight gulf in pension saving between DB and DC schemes for tomorrow’s pensioners
David Kingman looks at some new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on pension saving which show how little most of today’s workers are managing to save towards their retirements
The share of young people who are NEET continues to fall – but is that necessarily good news?
David Kingman ponders some important questions about whether the UK’s “jobs miracle” is necessarily all that it’s cracked up to be, especially in light of the supposedly lower number of young adults who are NEETs
Is Greece still the worst EU country to be a young person?
As the Greek economy reaches the crucial moment marking the end of its third (and hopefully final) bailout programme, David Kingman looks at whether the position of its young people has improved
New IF research shows that young adults’ wellbeing has fallen by 10% since mid-1990s
David Kingman gives an overview of the findings of IF’s latest research project, which looks at how the wellbeing of young adults has changed over the last two decades
Are today’s young people really “Generation Sensible”?
David Kingman has a look at the evidence surrounding the “Generation Sensible” narrative about young people
Renters have lowest wellbeing of any housing tenure, ONS finds
David Kingman provides a guide to the latest ONS research into inequalities in personal wellbeing, and looks at what it could mean for today’s young adults
Can the government’s “70th birthday present” solve the NHS funding crisis?
David Kingman goes behind the rhetoric to look at whether the recent announcement about new funding for the NHS is likely to actually solve its problems
Could new voter-identification laws threaten to disenfranchise younger voters?
David Kingman examines whether new laws placing a greater burden on voters to prove who they are could make it more difficult for younger members of the electorate to vote
What impact has monetary policy had on intergenerational fairness?
David Kingman looks at the findings of new research which suggest that unusual monetary policy since the 2008 global financial crisis has not made inequality in the UK worse