Events

In this online webinar, IFS Research Economist David Sturrock will be looking at the economics of pensions and the ageing population, answering questions such as how will changing demographics affect public pensions, and what can the government do about it?

At this event, speakers will set out what we know, and what we need to know, about the very rich in the UK. Using a mixture of data from household surveys and data from tax authorities, the speakers will look at trends in the share of national income that goes to very high earners, the characteristics of those at the top of the income distribution, the importance of income from capital gains, and what we know about wealth inequality.

In this online webinar, IFS Research Economist Ben Zaranko will be looking at the economics of healthcare and social insurance, answering questions such as how and why do countries differ in how they provide health care, and why can’t we just leave it to the market?

Little is more important to our society and economy than the effectiveness of our education system. This IFS at 50 event will look at how spending on and effectiveness of the different stages of education have changed over time, how well children from different social backgrounds do, and what the big challenges are for the future.

Organised By: Richard Blundell (University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies) and Itay Saporta Eksten (Tel Aviv University and University College London)

The Institute for Fiscal Studies, with support from the ESRC, are organising an academic conference on 'Inequality and the Insurance Value of Transfers Over the Life Cycle' on 10th - 11th October in London. Topics will include health and ageing, savings, government programmes, private insurance markets, earnings, health, and medical spending dynamics and risks and their implications, and retirement.

The IFS Green Budget 2019, in association with Citi and with funding from the Nuffield Foundation, will analyse the issues and challenges facing Chancellor Sajid Javid as he prepares for his first Budget – and which the competing political parties should address in any 2019 general election campaign. The findings from a selection of chapters will be presented at the event, where the full publication will be launched.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies and UCL, with support from the ERC and ESRC, are organising an academic conference on 'Consumer Behaviour: New Models, New Methods' on 3rd – 5th October in London. This event will bring together an international field of researchers to strengthen interactions between theorists and econometricians.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Chartered Institute of Taxation and the Institute for Government are organising joint panel discussions at the main party conferences this autumn, looking at the end of austerity and the spending review.

We’re pleased to announce that Professor Pinelopi (Penny) Koujianou Goldberg, Chief Economist of the World Bank Group, will give the 2019 IFS Annual Lecture on the unequal effects of globalisation.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Chartered Institute of Taxation and the Institute for Government are organising joint panel discussions at the main party conferences this autumn, looking at the end of austerity and the spending review.

At this event, IFS researchers will be launching their second annual report on education spending in England, supported by the Nuffield Foundation. This will provide consistent measures of day-to-day spending per pupil in England across the four main stages of education stretching back to the early 1990s.

In the context of demographic change, among other trends, how will the incomes of pensioners in the future be supported? This IFS at 50 event will look at how our pensions and savings system has worked to support retirement incomes and how we should think about supporting future generations of pensioners in the decades to come.

At this event, IFS researchers will present the key findings from the latest in the series of flagship IFS annual reports on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK. Funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the report will analyse the latest data on living standards, while setting this in the context of developments in pay, employment and inflation.

This is the fifteenth 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.

As part of the UCL Festival of Culture, Professor Sir Richard Blundell (UCL Economics and Institute for Fiscal Studies) will lead a presentation and discussion on inequality in the UK at this free public event.

New IFS research, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, examines the effect that Sure Start has had on health outcomes. To what extent has Sure Start benefitted children’s health? Which groups of children benefit the most? How might these benefits have come about?

UCL, The Institute for Fiscal Studies and CReAM are co-organising a conference on Gender Equality, Couple Equity: The Road Ahead on May 20-21.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies is launching a major new 5 year study of inequalities in the UK, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and chaired by Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Angus Deaton.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies will be celebrating our 50th anniversary in 2019, and we'll be marking the occasion with an event and drinks reception held on the evening of 9 May 2019 in Westminster.