Election Special: Your questions answered podcastIn the final run up to the election, we answer your questions about everything from borrowing to AI to the part that luck plays in the economy. 27 June 2024
Election Special: The Labour manifesto explained podcastWe discuss the Labour manifesto launched on Thursday and give our reaction to the policies and pledges within it.14 June 2024
Election Special: The Conservative manifesto explained podcastWe discuss the Conservative manifesto launched on Tuesday and give our reaction to the policies and pledges within it.12 June 2024
General Election 2024: IFS manifesto analysis event 24 June 2024 IFS researchers and Director Paul Johnson will deliver their analysis of the parties' manifestos at a live-streamed press briefing.
Inaugural IFS postdoc workshop workshop 4 July 2024 This academic workshop on applied public and labour economics will feature presentations by alumni of the IFS postdoc scheme.
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2024 event 25 July 2024 This online event will present the key findings from our latest flagship annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK.
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.
Imran Rasul appointed Royal Economic Society President-Elect AnnouncementCPP Director and IFS Research Director, Imran Rasul, appointed as RES President-Elect for 2024/25.6 June 2024
IFS Associate Director to take up position at the Journal of Public Economics AnnouncementDr Lucie Gadenne will start as a co-editor in January 202514 May 2024
Professor Imran Rasul to lead new justice research project AnnouncementNew IFS research project on justice system in England and Wales launches today1 May 2024
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