The £600 billion problem awaiting the next government podcastWe speak to David Gauke and Giles Wilkes, two experts who have been at the heart of the spending review process.25 April 2024
Be the Chancellor Our interactive tool lets you be the Chancellor. Change spending plans, set tax policies and see how your choices impact borrowing and debt.
Should we worry about government debt? podcastDavid Miles joins us to discuss high government debt and its impact on the economy. 11 April 2024
IFS Annual Lecture - Innovation and productivity policies: a budgetary perspective event 15 May 2024 Professor Heidi Williams (Dartmouth College) will deliver the 2024 IFS Annual Lecture on innovation and productivity policies.
Higher Education Access and Funding: challenges and policy options conference 14 May 2024 This one-day academic conference will look at access to and funding of Higher Education systems.
Jobs landing pageAt IFS, we recruit and train top-quality economists and professional support staff. We aim to foster a respectful and inclusive working environment.20 July 2022
Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy The Research Centre at the heart of IFS is the CPP.
IFS Deputy Director Carl Emmerson made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences AnnouncementDeputy Director Carl Emmerson has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.4 March 2024
Itay Saporta Eksten visits IFS AnnouncementWe are pleased to welcome Professor Itay Saporta Eksten as a visitor to the IFS for the next eighteen months.31 January 2024
IFS Director Paul Johnson awarded honorary doctorate degree from University of Sussex AnnouncementIFS Director Paul Johnson has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree from University of Sussex. 26 January 2024
Statement on Alistair Darling's passing AnnouncementPaul Johnson reflects on the death of our Pensions Review Chair Alistair Darling 4 December 2023
IFS co-organises Paris-London Public Economics Conference 2023 AnnouncementThis year's Paris-London Conference in public economics takes place on 7th and 8th December 2023. Register to attend before 30th November 2023.24 November 2023
Imran Rasul elected as EEA Vice-President AnnouncementCPP Director and UCL Professor Imran Rasul is the new Vice-President (President-Elect in 2025 & President in 2026) of the EEA.21 November 2023
Professor Imran Rasul to lead IFS new research project AnnouncementProfessor Imran Rasul, CPP Director, will lead an IFS project on economic opportunities across racial and ethnic groups in the United Kingdom.25 October 2023
IFS contributor Claudia Goldin wins Nobel Prize in economics AnnouncementCommittee cites her work on generations of women in the labour market. 9 October 2023
FCDO renews TaxDev funding for the next seven years AnnouncementFCDO has announced renewed funding for The Centre for Tax Analysis in Developing Countries, a collaboration between IFS and ODI.19 September 2023
IFS Research Fellow publishes monograph on inequality AnnouncementIFS Research Fellow Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg has published a monologue entitled The Unequal Effects of Globalization.7 September 2023
IFS International Research Fellow Olympia Bover wins Rei Jaume I Prize AnnouncementThe prize is one of the highest awards for economics in Spain. Olympia is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy, the ESRC research institute based at the IFS. 12 June 2023
Paper by IFS Associate Director Anne Brockmeyer awarded 2023 ADB–IEA Innovative Policy Research Award AnnouncementAnne Brockmeyer's paper “Taxing Property in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence from Mexico" wins 2023 ADB–IEA Innovative Policy Research Award.26 April 2023
IFS NHS waiting lists calculator wins 2022 Harding Prize for Trustworthy Communication AnnouncementThe IFS interactive NHS waiting lists calculator has been awarded the 2022 Harding Prize for Trustworthy Communication.20 April 2023
IFS Deputy Director Carl Emmerson appointed to the UK Statistics Authority Methodological Assurance Review Panel AnnouncementDeputy Director Carl Emmerson has been appointed to the Methodological Assurance Review Panel.14 April 2023
Call for papers: 5th World Bank/IFS/ODI Research Conference AnnouncementSubmissions are open until 15th May for the 5th World Bank/IFS/ODI Research Conference on the "Political Economy of Public Finances".3 April 2023
IFS awarded five-year Impact Acceleration Account funding from ESRC AnnouncementThe Institute for Fiscal Studies has been awarded £1.25 million in flexible Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) funding from the ESRC.7 March 2023
LSE-IFS-UCL-CEPR-Imperial Business School workshop on household finance AnnouncementThe IFS, in association with LSE, UCL, CEPR, and Imperial Business School, are organising a workshop on household finance.1 March 2023
CEPR symposium of the Development Economics Programme publishes summary papers AnnouncementPhD students at UCL have published summaries of the papers presented at the CEPR symposium of the Development Economics Programme.22 February 2023
IFS Director Paul Johnson awarded honorary doctorate from University of York AnnouncementPaul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, had been awarded an honorary doctorate degree by the University of York.20 January 2023
In memory of Sir Alan Budd (1937 – 2023) AnnouncementThe IFS is greatly saddened to learn of the death of our friend and colleague, Alan Budd.19 January 2023