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 Statement 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 Statement.</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 Share of journeys by public transport, in London and the rest of England Published on 19 June 2024 The gap between public transport use in London and in the rest of England is at its second-widest level since 2002–03. Government finances and 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
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
Housing supply elasticities and percentage changes in number of properties and house prices across England, 1996 to 2021 data item The responsiveness of housing supply to local demand is highest in the East of England and lowest in and around London and in the North-West. 22 November 2024
Employment rates by local authority, year to June 2024 data item Almost a third of local authorities in Great Britain already have employment rates of 80%, one in six have employment rates below 70%. 12 December 2024
Exposure to air pollution in England, 2003–23 report We set out how air pollution (PM2.5) has changed across England and explore inequalities by ethnicity, income deprivation, region and age. 6 December 2024
Average PM2.5 exposure by region data item Air pollution exposure in London is consistently 15–30% higher than the average from 2003 to 2023. 6 December 2024
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
Labeled loans and human capital investments journal article We provide novel evidence that labeled microcredit is effective in influencing household borrowing and investment decisions. 14 January 2023
