The Schools Bill: what's changing and why? podcast<p class="p1">The bill aims to improve education and social care for children. But will it work?</p>11 March 2025
Family values: inheritance, inequality and social mobility podcast<p><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;">Wealth concentration among baby boomers and stagnant earnings are driving the rise of the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’, affecting social mobility.</span></p>3 March 2025
How important is the OBR forecast? podcast<p>The OBR forecast will underpin the Chancellor’s decisions at the next Spring Forecast.</p>12 February 2025
Spring Forecast 2025: IFS analysis event 27 March 2025 <p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(37, 61, 64);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:"DM Serif Text", serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">At this online event IFS researchers will present their initial analysis of the Chancellor's Spring Forecast.</span></p>
How can people be better helped to draw on their pension wealth in retirement? event 1 April 2025 <p><span data-teams="true">This online event will present new analysis of the way in which defined contribution pension wealth is currently being accessed.</span></p>
IFS residential conference 2025: How do we build a business tax system for the 21st century? conference 3 April 2025 <p>This conference, in association with <a href="https://www.deloitte.co.uk">Deloitte</a>, will discuss the UK business tax system in the context of the new Corporate Tax Roadmap.</p>
Jobs landing page<p>At IFS, we recruit and train top-quality economists and professional support staff. We aim to foster a respectful and inclusive working environment.</p>20 July 2022
Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy The Research Centre at the heart of IFS is the CPP.
Election 2024 Gross expenditure on research & development, UK Published on 19 June 2024 Business spending on research and development in 2022 increased in Greater South East, but fell sharply elsewhere. Business and investment Government finances and spending Research and Development Government spending Investment Geography
What is this government’s ‘theory of growth’? Nobody knows comment "Shifting the performance of an entire economy requires a long-term, consistent and persistent direction." Paul Johnson writes for the Times. 20 January 2025
How important is the OBR forecast? podcast The OBR forecast will underpin the Chancellor’s decisions at the next Spring Forecast. 12 February 2025
Change in selected departmental capital budgets since 2007–08 data item The Ministry of Justice saw the biggest cuts to its capital budget over the 2010s, but then has seen the largest relative increases since. 11 February 2025
A look ahead to the 2025 Spring Forecast comment What are the Chancellor’s options if – and it is very much an if – the upcoming Spring Forecast puts her on track to miss her fiscal targets? 6 March 2025
Scottish Budget: the overall fiscal and spending outlook report Funding and spending growth are set to slow. Without a top-up, health spending will be flat in 2025–26 and tricky trade-offs elsewhere loom too. 20 February 2025
Public spending on health and defence in the UK over time data item Public spending on defence in the UK has decreased significantly in the past 70 years, while health spending has increased. 18 February 2025
There and back again: women’s marginal commuting costs working paper We estimate female and male workers’ marginal willingness to pay to reduce commuting distance in Germany. 2 April 2024
House price rises and borrowing to invest working paper We propose a borrow-to-invest motive by which house price gains affect household spending on residential investment. 27 March 2024
Do work search requirements work? Evidence from a UK reform targeting single parents working paper We assess whether work search requirements for out-of-work welfare claimants are effective in inducing individuals to work & delivering fiscal savings 1 February 2023
