Announcements

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

IFS researchers and research fellows, Orazio Attanasio, Sarah Cattan, Emla Fitzsimons, Costas Meghir and Marta Rubio-Codina, have published a paper in The American Economic Review January 2020 edition.

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IFS wins Royal Statistical Society 'Stat of the Year' award

Professor Richard Blundell, David Ricardo Chair of Political Economy at University College London, will deliver the ESRI’s annual Geary lecture.

The labour market is undergoing profound changes, raising multiple policy challenges.

Orazio Attanasio delivered a keynote addressed at the annual Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) conference in Puebla, Mexico

Royal Economic Society launches #DiscoverEconomics campaign to promote diversity in economics

Professor Conti recognised as an economist "whose future career is exceptionally promising."

Imran Rasul, co-director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, will give the keynote address at the 11th Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime in Amsterdam on the 26th-27th September. This year’s theme will focus on prevention of crime over the life cycle.

Attila Lindner, a Research Associate at the IFS, has co-written the lead paper in The American Economic Review August 2019 edition.

Judges commended our work on education spending and the NHS in particular for its impact on policy and public debate in 2018.

The Society for Economic Measurement will hold their annual conference at Goethe University in Frankfurt with co-sponsorship by the European Central Bank.

IFS Research Fellow Gabriella Conti has been awarded the Nick Hales Award by the International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD).

Carl Emmerson, Deputy Director at The IFS, has presented at Budget perspectives 2020, an Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) event.

The 2019 Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society (2019 AMES) will be held on June 14-16 at Xiamen University, in southeast China.