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 Director Imran Rasul was appointed the next President-Elect of the Royal Economic Society, IFS Deputy Director Carl Emmerson was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and IFS Associate Director Lucie Gadenne became co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics.
IFS authors published 102 journal articles and 89 working papers in 2024. Over the past decade we have had 45 articles in the top five economics journals.