Events

As part of the "What Works Global Summit" series, this presentation will use EDePo’s sanitation work as an example of how a research agenda developed (and in fact is developing) and will focus on specific questions around impact and policy evaluation.

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.

Every two years, IFS holds a residential conference, aiming to facilitate high-level knowledge exchange between practitioners, policymakers and academics on key areas of policy and practice. This year we will consider how anti-avoidance measures are designed, how governments’ and businesses’ perspectives on tax avoidance are changing, and what we can expect from international efforts going forward.

On Tuesday 19 July, the IFS will publish its detailed annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

At this event, we will be launching the first set of results to come out of the evaluation on different ways to get citizens more involved in the delivery of public services. IFS researchers will present the empirical results and policy implications of the evaluation, whilst representatives from Lambeth Council will talk about their experience of the trial.

This is the seventh 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.

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.

The "The early years: child well-being and the role of public policy" conference will be held on 9 and 10 June 2016 at the British Academy. The focus of the conference will be on lessons that can be learned from the literature on the early years, their long term consequences, and the potential role for policy.

Following the publication of the final recommendations of the Independent Review of Economic Statistics by Professor Sir Charles Bean, the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Royal Economic Society (RES) and the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) invite you to a one day conference to discuss what should be done next to implement the recommendations to develop innovative new ways of measuring the economy. The day will focus on four topics which the review identified as critical areas for further work, and will consider how the wider professional community of economists and statisticians can help develop workable solutions for the Office for National Statistics to implement the review recommendations.

Join ​a ​panel ​of ​leading ​economists ​and ​tax ​professionals ​to ​explore ​this ​thought-provoking ​topic ​at ​a ​debate ​organised ​by ​the ​Chartered ​Institute ​of ​Taxation ​and ​the ​Institute ​for ​Fiscal ​Studies. ​

This event launched a special issue of the journal Fiscal Studies on “Household Wealth Data and Public Policy”. The volume contains contributions from leading academics (including Richard Blundell and Anthony Atkinson) and from research staff at the Bank of England and Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve.

This conference is jointly organised by the IFS and ETPF.

After months of difficult negotiations, a new Fiscal Framework for Scotland to accompany its new tax and welfare powers has been agreed. In this event, David Bell(University of Stirling and the Centre on Constitutional Change), David Eiser (University of Stirling and the Centre on Constitutional Change) and David Phillips (Institute for Fiscal Studies) will examine the agreement, paying particular attention to one key part: the adjustments to Scotland's block grant to account for the devolved revenues and additional spending responsibilities the Scottish Government will soon have.

At this event in Edinburgh, David Phillips from IFS and colleagues from the University of Stirling examined the new fiscal framework, paying particular attention to the adjustments to Scotland's block grant.

On Thursday 17 March IFS researchers presented their analysis of the Chancellor's Budget announcements.

This two-day academic workshop at the Institute for Fiscal Studies will feature 9 papers on the incidence and labour market effects of SSCs, alongside a panel discussion on directions for future research chaired by Professor Sir Richard Blundell.

This workshop draws together recent innovative research on the measurement of public sector workforce quality and of the effect of pay on quality and of quality on outcomes in different parts of the public sector. The workshop will be of interest not just to economists interested in the labour market and in public finance, but also to practitioners working in the field of pay-setting, pay regulation, and public policy.

At this event IFS researchers will present new analysis quantifying the effect of taxes and charges on incentives to save in different forms and assessing both existing tax arrangements and recently announced or proposed reforms.

The IFS Green Budget 2016, in association with ICAEW and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, will analyse the issues and challenges facing Chancellor George Osborne.

This seminar has been organised by the Office of the Chief Economist and Country and Sector Economics at EBRD and EDePo at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).