What's the future of corporation tax? podcast<p><span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">Corporation tax was introduced 60 years ago. Despite many predictions of its decline, it is now forecast to raise record amounts. </span></p>10 April 2025
Spring Statement 2025: IFS Zooms In podcast<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(13, 13, 13);counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;cursor:text;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"> What were the decisions and trade-offs made by Chancellor Reeves?</p>27 March 2025
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
IFS Annual Lecture: Trade Wars and the Future of Globalisation conference 20 May 2025 <p>Professor Meredith Crowley will deliver the 2025 <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;">IFS Annual Lecture. </span></p>
From Sure Start to Family Hubs: how can evidence best inform policymaking for joined up family support in the early years? conference 22 May 2025 <p>This event will explore the evidence and policy landscape around early years family support. It will also mark the launch of a new report from IFS.</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.
Percentage of patients waiting less than 18 weeks for elective treatment in England Published on 20 March 2025 Performance against the NHS' 18-week waiting times target has since deteriorated gradually before a sharp fall during the pandemic. Health and social care Health Healthcare NHS
Simulated list size and performance against the 18-week target under a variety of treatment growth rate assumptions data item Although performance improves in each case, in none of our scenarios does performance reach the 92% target by the end of the parliament. 20 March 2025
Can the new government fix the NHS? podcast We look at the key challenges facing the NHS, and what the new government could do to tackle them. 14 August 2024
Air pollution in England by MSOA over time, measured by PM2.5 exposure, 2003 to 2023 data item Average exposure to PM2.5 in England fell by 54% between 2003 and 2023. Almost everywhere in England is now below England’s 2040 target for PM2.5. 6 December 2024
Can the government achieve its 18-week elective waiting time target? report Simulation modelling of NHS elective waiting times in England shows that the government’s 18-week target is unlikely to be met in this parliament. 20 March 2025
Number of patients on the elective waiting list and percentage waiting less than 18 weeks, 2007–24 data item 18-week performance has remained around 60% since 2022, despite the list size varying between 6.1 million and 7.8 million during this time. 20 March 2025
Simulated list size and performance against the 18-week target under medium (3.5%) treatment growth rates data item In none of our scenarios with medium growth in treatment volumes is the NHS' 18-week target achieved by the end of the parliament. 20 March 2025
The menopause "penalty" working paper We show that a menopause diagnosis leads to lasting drops in earnings and employment, alongside greater reliance on social transfers. 21 March 2025
Call for papers: IFS-ADBI-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMICs 2025 conference 16 May 2025 at 09:00 Submissions are open until 15th February for the IFS-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMIC 2025
Subjective expectations and demand for contraception working paper We collect data on the subjective beliefs of married, adult women not wanting a pregnancy and estimate a structural model of contraceptive choices. 9 April 2025
