Events

In light of Coronavirus (Covid-19) and current restrictions in place, we are going through the deepest recession in living memory.

Council tax is both increasingly out-of-date and arbitrary, and highly regressive with respect to property values. At this event, IFS researchers will present the key findings of a new report which examines a range of possible reforms to the council tax system.

The Chancellor is due to deliver his first Budget on Wednesday 11 March 2020. The next day, IFS researchers will present their initial analysis of the Chancellor's announcements on the public finances, spending on public services, and the tax and the benefit system.

This IFS Public Talk, jointly organised with the University of Manchester, will be given by Rebekah Stroud, Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and will look at whether or not there is an economic rationale for interventions aimed at altering people's diets.

Two weeks ahead of what could be the most fiscally important Budget for years, IFS researchers will set out their latest assessment of the constraints within which the Chancellor is operating and will assess his options.

Our Public Economics lectures are given by IFS researchers who are experts in different fields of public economics and on different areas of government policy. They are designed to be of particular interest to undergraduates and masters students in economics and related disciplines.

This IFS / LSE / Paris School of Economics joint research conference will be held at the Paris School of Economics and will feature sessions on a wide range of Public Economics topics.

At this public event, the directors of three of the UK’s most trusted and respected independent bodies will talk about what has been promised in this election campaign, what challenges will face the new government (whatever its complexion), and where next for Brexit.

Finding a solution to the growing adult social care crisis in England is increasingly recognised as a top priority for the next government. The Health Foundation is hosting a breakfast seminar on Thursday 21 November at which the options for reforming the adult social care system will be set out by leading social care and economic experts.

Topics will include earnings and wage risk over the business cycle, hours of work choices, intergenerational altruism, wealth inequality, pension reform, macroeconomic impact of migration.

This is the sixteenth in a series of lectures and debates being organised by the CIOT and the IFS to promote debate among policy-makers, opinion-formers and the wider tax and economics communities on the future of the UK and international tax systems.

The 2010s have seen councils have to adapt to big changes to their funding. As we approach a new decade and a further set of funding reforms, IFS researchers will be releasing their first annual report on local government revenue and spending issues, supported by our Local Government Finance and Devolution Consortium.

In this online webinar, IFS Research Economist Rebekah Stroud will be looking at the economics of "sin taxes", answering questions such as how high or low should these taxes be, and who bears the burden of them?

This IFS Public Talk, jointly organised with the University of Manchester and part of the 2019 ESRC Festival of Social Science, will be given by George Stoye, Senior Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and will give an economist's perspective on how we, as a country, can pay for our health and social care system.

How much will you really pay for university? Does that depend on where and what you study? Are there any alternative ways to fund higher education? And how would these affect what the education system should be trying to achieve? This IFS Public Talk will be given by Jack Britton, Senior Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and will give an economist's perspective on the ongoing tuition fee debate.

In this online webinar, IFS Research Economist Agnes Norris Keiller will be looking at the economics of income inequality, answering questions such as how is inequality changing, and what are the tradeoffs in achieving a more equal society?

In this online webinar, IFS Research Economist David Sturrock will be looking at the economics of pensions and the ageing population, answering questions such as how will changing demographics affect public pensions, and what can the government do about it?

At this event, speakers will set out what we know, and what we need to know, about the very rich in the UK. Using a mixture of data from household surveys and data from tax authorities, the speakers will look at trends in the share of national income that goes to very high earners, the characteristics of those at the top of the income distribution, the importance of income from capital gains, and what we know about wealth inequality.

In this online webinar, IFS Research Economist Ben Zaranko will be looking at the economics of healthcare and social insurance, answering questions such as how and why do countries differ in how they provide health care, and why can’t we just leave it to the market?

Little is more important to our society and economy than the effectiveness of our education system. This IFS at 50 event will look at how spending on and effectiveness of the different stages of education have changed over time, how well children from different social backgrounds do, and what the big challenges are for the future.