Our academic impact
Hosting one of the UK’s only two prestigious UKRI-funded social science Research Institutes, IFS economists carry out cutting-edge empirical research on a par with our leading universities.
IFS Research Associate Sarah Smith was awarded an OBE while IFS Deputy Research Director Sonya Krutikova was awarded the Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship. IFS Senior Research Economist Alison Andrew was selected for the Review of Economics Studies American Tour.
IFS authors published 81 journal articles and 105 working papers in 2022. Over the past decade we have had 43 articles in the top five economics journals.