Spring Statement 2025
Find all of our analysis of the Spring Statement here.
Rigorous, trusted economic analysis and commentary is needed now more than ever
Our impact stats
- 71
- working papers written by IFS authors in 2024
- 102
- journal articles published by IFS authors in 2024. Over the past decade we have had 47 articles in the top five economics journals
- 71,967
- mentions in the UK media in 2024
- 270
- mentions in parliamentary debates in 2024
- 368
- UK government policy documents that cited IFS and its research in 2024
Latest working papers
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Journal articles
Our staff and associates contribute papers to leading academic journals.
Featured researchers
IFS has a strong record in training excellent social scientists, some of whom continue to work at IFS for many years; others go on to use the skills they have acquired in academia, policymaking, business or the media.
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Darcey Snape
Darcey joined the IFS in 2024 as a research economist in the Education and Skills sector.
Tom Waters
Tom is an Associate Director at the IFS and Head of the Income, Work and Welfare sector.
Announcements
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Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy
The ESRC has funded a Centre at IFS since 1991. We are recognised as a global centre of excellence and have official ESRC Research Institute status
The Centre underpins and is fundamental to IFS's research agenda, and is of central importance to our ability to integrate research with policy analysis.