Today we publish a series of reports on the evolution of inequalities in 17 countries in Europe and North America. These are published as part of the IFS Deaton Review Country...

In their chapter on gender inequality, Andrew et al. (2021) highlight heterogeneity in women’s economic outcomes, focusing primarily on level of education. Participation,...

Concepts and measures of ‘social class’ and of ‘social stratification’ are used extensively within sociology and its cognate disciplines, but differ from indicators of...

Intergenerational mobility is a subject of a large body of literature in social science. Key findings National estimates of intergenerational earnings mobility Previous...

Debates about inequality often focus on inequalities between people. But what about inequalities between firms? Recent decades have seen the emergence of giant,...

 Over the past decades, women have drawn closer to men in a variety of areas - education, university degrees and workforce participation. But, women still earn less on...

Differences in health outcomes are an important and well-documented dimension of inequality. As discussed in Case and Kraftman (2022), there are marked differences in life...

Since 2019, we’ve all heard a lot about levelling up. It makes sense that our politics is centered around it - of all types of inequality, the public seems most concerned...

We see inequalities all the time, whether at the school gates, the hospital, when travelling round the country and definitely when turning on the news.  But why should...

In 2019­–20, a total of £509 billion (that is, 22.5% of GDP or £7,600 per person) was spent on providing public services and infrastructure by the various tiers of...

In this comment, Kate Ogden and David Phillips draw on their new report for the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities to summarise long-term changes in the distribution of public...

Paul Johnson, Director of The Institute for Fiscal Studies, gave a talk at the Oxford Martin School where he drew on the extensive work of the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities...

Cash payments directly to individuals are a major component of most modern welfare states, alongside the provision of publicly provided services (throughout this chapter, we...