Events

At this online event we discussed a number of questions, including what can policymakers do to build a more equal education system?

Higher inflation is causing budgetary challenges in the NHS, schools, local government, and beyond.

This joint conference on development economics was held in London in October 2022.

This virtual event offered an opportunity to meet current IFS staff, and ask questions about life at IFS and our recruitment process.

The IFS Green Budget 2022 will take stock of the economic and fiscal outlook following Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget and analyse the challenges ahead.

This event explored the impact of the significant change the tax and benefit system is currently undergoing.

Join us at the Conservative Party Conference for this IFS/CIOT panel debate, including a live showing of the Chancellor's conference speech.

Join us at the Labour Party Conference for this IFS/CIOT panel debate featuring James Murray MP, Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury.

This 4th annual conference brings together leading researchers and policymakers to discuss research on making the global tax system more equitable.

On Friday, the Chancellor will make his first fiscal statement since taking office. What should we look out for?

We’re pleased to announce that Baroness Minouche Shafik, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, will give the 2022 IFS Annual Lecture.

Education is one of the most important predictors of people's life chances, shaping outcomes like work and pay, health, and wealth. At this online event, our panel will look at what aspects of the education system make the most difference to inequality and what policymakers can do if they want to build a more equal education system.

At this webinar, IFS researchers will introduce the new IFS-CIPFA Local Government Finance Model. Following the presentation and demonstration there will be an opportunity for you to ask your questions about the model, its assumptions, its uses and its limitations.

At this event, IFS researchers will present the key findings from their latest flagship annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality in t

How should the tax system treat pension saving? Is the answer different in a world of ‘pension freedoms’? These are some of the questions our expert panel will consider in this topical debate.

This workshop - aimed at policymakers and academics - will bring together economists from a range of fields to draw out the most important policy lessons from the last two years.

Inequalities between children in these domains open up very early in life. At this online event we will discuss a number of questions. How large is the variation in early child development and in the environments that young children are raised in? What are the most important features of children’s early environment for their development?

How long are people's working lives? Are they getting longer or - since the pandemic - shorter? What will the working lives be like for future generations approaching state pension age? These are some of the questions we look to answer at this event which comes at the end of a large 2-year programme of work from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Centre for Ageing Better.

In the UK, the government has placed a high-emphasis on the role of technical and adult education in helping to level-up poorer areas of the country. This event will examine the potential role that adult education can play in providing a genuine second chance, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds or who leave school with few formal qualifications.

At this online event, IFS researchers will present the findings of new research on the spending patterns of current retirees, including how spending o