Announcements

Tax Law Review Committee (TLRC) has published a new report on the strengths of and areas for improvement for the Tax Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal (FTT)

Director of the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies and IFS Research Fellow Professor Alissa Goodman has been awarded an CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2021.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies launches IFS TaxLab, a website which provides impartial explainers, answers and data on the UK tax system.

Xavier Jaravel, an IFS Research Associate based at the London School of Economics, has won Le Monde's prize for the best young economist.

IFS Director Paul Johnson has joined the new Times Education Commission, a year-long project bringing together experts on education which is expected to inform government policy.

A commission to examine the possibility of giving Stormont more taxation powers is to be led by IFS Director Paul Johnson.

Prof Rachel Griffith has been made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours List for her contribution to economics policy and education.

Professor Carol Propper, IFS Research Fellow, has been made a Dame in the New Year’s Honours for her contribution to economics and public health.

IFS Fellows among the six 'leading skills and labour market economists' appointed to the board to provide expert advice on skills and productivity.

Professor Sir Richard Blundell and the team at the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) have won the ONS Research Excellence Award for their work on informing policies to tackle inequalities.

Award given for services to Social Sciences

IFS Director Paul Johnson is the host of a new BBC radio series which looks at austerity and its impact on the UK.

IFS Research Director Imran Rasul has been announced a 2020 Fellow of the Econometric Society.

David Phillips joins Finance & Constitution Committee in the Scottish Parliament as advisor

Richard Blundell receives 2020 Jacob Mincer Award for lifetime contributions to field of labor economics

Issue 16 of CEPR's Covid Economics, disseminating emerging scholarly work on the Covid-19 epidemic, is now available.

IFS Research Director Rachel Griffith has been awarded honorary foreign membership to the prestigious American Economic Association.

Overall, universal credit costs the government a similar amount to the legacy benefits system. But it creates lots of winners and losers.