Events

The course will introduce the various quantitative methods that can be used to estimate the causal impact of a policy intervention. The aim is to give participants an understanding of the suitability of these empirical methods given the nature of the policy under consideration and the available data.

Several IFS researchers will be presenting their work during this year's Royal Economic Society Annual Conference in Bristol.

An IFS / UCL conference organised by Richard Blundell, Guy Laroque and Cormac O'Dea.

This is the eighth in a series of lectures and debates being organised by the CIOT and the IFS to promote debate among policy-makers, opinion-formers and the wider tax and economics communities on the future of the UK and international tax systems.

Low income countries typically raise less than 20% of their GDP from taxation, and this affects their ability to invest in human capital and infrastructure, foster equitable growth and reduce poverty.

London Health Economics Study Group. Presentations by Nicos Savva & Alice Mesnard.

On Thursday 9 March IFS researchers will present their analysis of Chancellor Philip Hammond's first full Budget.

IFS researchers have produced a new report funded by the Nuffield Foundation that provides consistent measures of day-to-day spending per pupil in England across the four main stages of education (early years, schools, further education and sixth forms, and higher education) stretching back to the early 1990s.

The IFS Green Budget 2017, in association with ICAEW and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, will analyse the issues and challenges facing Chancellor Phillip Hammond at his first Budget.

The Institute for Government, Chartered Institute of Taxation, and the Institute for Fiscal Studies invite you to the launch of their new report, Better Budgets: Making Tax Policy Better.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies is holding a day of talks on issues in public economics of interest to undergraduates in economics and related disciplines. The aim will be to focus on the policy implications of research carried out at the institute.

This event, held at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, is a joint UCL/ERC conference organised by Richard Blundell (UCL and IFS), Mariacristina De Nardi (UCL, IFS, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and NBER), and Eric French (UCL and IFS).

The Nuffield Foundation is hosting a conference in partnership with IFS to discuss the latest evidence relating to higher education and social mobility.

The IFS and the Research Centre for Micro-Social Change at ISER are organising a conference bringing together national and international experts on childcare and its role in promoting parental labour supply to discuss how evidence can inform the current policy debate in England.

The new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, will be making his first Autumn Statement - and the first since the UK public voted to leave the EU - on Wednesday 23 November. IFS researchers will present their initial analysis at a briefing on the following day, Thursday 24 November.

The IFS is launching new research on automatic enrolment into workplace pensions with a response from Richard Harrington MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State responsible for pensions.

The IFS is launching a major new research programme on local government finance and devolution, supported by a consortium of private and public sector funders. The programme will aim to build a clear understanding of the effect of recent reforms to local government funding on councils' decisions and local socio-economic outcomes.

For the fourth year, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) are organising three discussions at the main party conferences this autumn.

Professor Sir Angus Deaton delivered the 2016 Annual Lecture on 5 October - "Can the government make you happy? Should it try?" Professor Deaton is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University.

For the fourth year, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) are organising three discussions at the main party conferences this autumn.