Skip to main content

Search site

Icon to close panel
Resolution Foundation
Search site

Living standards


Material living standards are the result of labour market outcomes, taxes, benefits, housing and more. Bringing all of these together, we track past, present and projected changes in incomes to assess how the economy is really working for households. We look especially at low-to-middle-income families, and at the various inequalities in modern Britain.

Contacts

Adam Corlett

Principal Economist
T: 020 3372 2983
E: adam.corlett@resolutionfoundation.org

Karl Handscomb

Senior Economist
T: 0203 372 2906
E: karl.handscomb@resolutionfoundation.org
Publications

Food for thought

The role of food prices in the cost of living crisis

by

The cost of living crisis is often thought of as a cost of energy crisis. That is an understandable, but increasingly inadequate, view. In particular, it understates the growing role…
Continue Reading
Events

Still coping?

How families are faring as the cost-of-living crisis enters its second year

The UK’s cost-of-living crunch has entered its second year. While inflation should fall significantly in the coming months, the crisis is far from over. Prices are rising more slowly rather…
Continue Reading
Publications

Trying times

How people living in poor quality housing have fared during the cost of living crisis

by

Plenty of research has shown the important role housing plays on our living standards, attitudes and wider health and wellbeing. But less attention has been paid to the effect of…
Continue Reading
Publications

The only way is down

Assessing the impact of falls in wholesale energy prices on household and public finances

by

Huge rises in energy prices through much of 2022 sparked a cost of living crisis with recession-level hits to family (as inflation soared) and public finances (as the state partially…
Continue Reading
Comment

Growing inequality across Britain has left millions of families exposed to the cost-of-living crisis

by

Today, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published their data on household incomes and inequality for 2021-22; this is the first source of official data on household incomes for that…
Continue Reading
Publications

The Living Standards Outlook 2023

by

To deepen our understanding of where the cost of living crisis leaves Britain, our fifth Living Standards Outlook combines a new survey of 10,000 adults’ experience of the crisis with…
Continue Reading
Publications

Costly differences

Living standards for working-age people with disabilities

by

The cost of living crisis has shone a harsh light on different groups’ ability to deal with fast- rising prices. In this briefing note, we focus on the living standards…
Continue Reading
Publications

New Year’s Outlook 2023

They think it’s all over… it isn’t now

by

2022 was a truly horrendous year, dominated by the arrival of double-digit inflation that drove a 3.3 per cent (or £800 per household) hit to real disposable incomes, the biggest…
Continue Reading
Loading
No more topics found
Back to top

Mailing list

Be the first to hear about our events, or receive our weekly round-up of political economic research

Sign up below

I would like to receive:

I consent to my data being used in line with the privacy policy