What does Britain think about inequality? podcast<p class="p1">Why do people care about inequality, and what do they want government to do about it?</p>11 June 2026
How unequal is Britain? podcast<p class="p1">We set out the facts on UK inequality, from income and wealth to opportunity, health and place.</p>4 June 2026
Why is UK electricity so expensive? podcast<p class="p1">Why UK electricity prices are so high, how renewables affect costs, and what government can do to protect households from shocks.</p>21 May 2026
5th Workshop on the Economics of Crime for Junior Scholars workshop 22 June 2026 <p><em><span data-teams="true">This two-day conference brings together junior researchers on topics related to the economics of crime and criminal justice</span></em></p>
LSE-IFS-UCL-CEPR-Imperial Business School workshop on household finance workshop 30 June 2026 <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;">The IFS, in association with LSE, UCL, CEPR, and Imperial Business School, are organising a workshop on household finance.</span></p>
Increasing pension contributions: what would higher employer minimums mean? event 21 July 2026 <p>Join us as IFS researchers present findings on employer pension contributions and explore how higher minimum rates could affect workers and employers.</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.
Household income percentiles (equivalised to a childless couple) Published on 21 March 2024 This chart shows the level of income at each percentile of the distribution, useful for comparing the household incomes of richer and poorer people.
Why is the UK so geographically unequal? podcast We ask why the UK has such large regional divides, how they emerged, and what policymakers can realistically do to fix them. 18 June 2026
What does Britain think about inequality? podcast Why do people care about inequality, and what do they want government to do about it? 11 June 2026
How unequal is Britain? podcast We set out the facts on UK inequality, from income and wealth to opportunity, health and place. 4 June 2026
IFS-Cemmap Remote Policy Evaluation Methods Course event 29 June 2026 at 10:00 Register now to learn key policy evaluation methods with IFS–Cemmap. Combine self-paced study and live sessions to apply techniques using Stata or R.
Pension saving plummets when employees move into self-employment press release More than three-quarters of employees who consistently saved into a pension stop doing so when they move into self-employment. 11 June 2026
How does private pension saving change for workers moving from employee jobs into self-employment? report What happens to private pension saving when workers move from employee jobs to self-employment and how does this vary for different groups of workers? 11 June 2026
Economic opportunities by race and ethnicity conference 5 October 2026 at 09:00 We are currently welcoming submissions of rigorous research across a broad range of dimensions to this in-person academic conference by 31st July.
1st Annual CEP–IFS Labour Economics Conference conference 15 June 2026 at 09:00 CEP and IFS host the 1st annual labour conference in London, looking at how wages and careers are shaped by firms and labour market institutions.
Intergenerational transmission of victimization working paper Using four decades of Danish administrative data, we estimate the intergenerational transmission of violent crime victimization. 12 June 2026
