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Poverty, inequality and social mobility

Our research looks at inequalities in living standards, education, health and other outcomes. We study the role of labour market outcomes, taxes and benefits, and structural forces like globalisation in shaping trends in poverty, inequality and social mobility.

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Inequalities: which ones matter, and what to do about them?

Presentation

Paul Johnson gave a talk at the Oxford Martin School where he drew on the extensive work of the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities.

27 February 2023

Public finances may be improving, but personal circumstances certainly are not

Comment

"Don’t be lulled into thinking we have reached the bottom of hole into which living standards have been sliding. We almost certainly haven’t."

27 February 2023

The cost of living crisis: a pre-Budget briefing

Report

The recent surge in inflation, driven by spectacular increases in energy prices, has driven sharp falls in household living standards.

22 February 2023

What drives the timing of inter-vivos transfers?

Working Paper

We analyse the relationships between giving and receiving significant wealth transfers and experiencing key life events.

13 February 2023

Who gives and receives substantial financial transfers in Britain?

Working Paper

We document key patterns in the flow of significant gifts and loans between friends and family in Great Britain.

13 February 2023

Who gives wealth transfers to whom and when? Patterns in the giving and receiving of lifetime gifts and loans

Report

We examine the patterns in the giving and receiving of significant wealth transfers during life, and the association of transfers with life events.

13 February 2023

Inequality and the benefits system

Presentation

At this online event, we presented and discussed findings from a major new work on benefits.

2 February 2023

Benefits and tax credits

Report

This chapter finds that though benefits reforms pushed more people into work, the work is often part-time, low-paid and with little progression.

1 February 2023

Do work search requirements work? Evidence from a UK reform targeting single parents

Working Paper

We assess whether work search requirements for out-of-work welfare claimants are effective in inducing individuals to work & delivering fiscal savings

1 February 2023

Intensive margin labour supply and the dynamic effects of in-work transfers

Working Paper

How should dynamic considerations affect the design of in-work transfers?

1 February 2023

Can higher education policy boost intergenerational mobility? Evidence from an empirical matching model

Working Paper

We use rich administrative data to estimate a novel two-sided matching model of sorting into field and institution within higher education.

26 January 2023

Parental investments and intra-household inequality in child human capital: evidence from a survey experiment

Working Paper

This paper studies the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain intra-household inequality and its determinants.

7 December 2022

We need to understand the diversity of experience across ethnic groups

Comment

"Understanding the diversity of experience across ethnic groups has never been so important." Paul Johnson writes in the Times on ethnic inequalities.

5 December 2022

Political inequality

Report

We explore the relationship between political and economic inequality in the UK.

2 December 2022

Cost-of-living crisis to hit students harder than expected

Comment

Students will be hit harder by the cost-of-living crisis than previously thought. Poorest students will be more than £1,000 worse off than in 2020–21.

30 November 2022