The coronavirus pandemic is affecting our social, economic and family lives dramatically and in widely-varying ways, and its potential for impacts on inequalities not only now but in the longer term is huge. The IFS Deaton Review is keenly engaged in understanding and responding to the challenges that this crisis is creating or highlighting. This page collects the Review’s work on these issues.

Fiscal Studies – The COVID-19 economic crisis

This is a special edition of Fiscal Studies focusing on the COVID-19 economic crisis. It includes work by contributors to the IFS Deaton Review of Inequality.

What does the rise of self-employment tell us about the UK labour market?

In recent years, some of the most talked-about trends in the UK labour market have concerned the growth of ‘non-standard’ or ‘alternative’ forms of work. These have...

Can COVID reduce global inequality?

The coronavirus pandemic has underlined the many deep social and economic fractures within countries - divides of race, class, education and income. But will it end up...

Private: A patchwork of vulnerabilities to the Covid-19 crisis around England

The current crisis is unlike any the UK has faced in living memory. While the most immediate effects of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are felt by...

COVID-19: the impact on the UK’s ethnic minority populations

The LSE has started running a public event series – COVID 19: The Policy Response. Video of the event featuring Lucinda Platt, panel member for the IFS Deaton Review and...

Private: United States of Despair

The article was originally published on the Project Syndicate website. Well before COVID-19 struck, there was another epidemic running rampant in the United States, killing...

Angus Deaton gives congressional testimony on COVID-19 and inequality

Angus Deaton, chair of the IFS Deaton Review, has given congressional evidence on how the coronavirus pandemic is exposing and exaggerating longstanding inequalities in health...

The geography of the COVID-19 crisis in England

The COVID-19 crisis has affected every part of the country – and indeed many other countries. What sets this crisis apart is the many different ways that it is impacting...

Covid-19: the impacts of the pandemic on inequality

At this event, IFS researchers discussed how Covid-19 has interacted with existing inequalities and consider the potential long-term legacy of the pandemic on...

COVID-19 and inequalities

Much of the debate about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, our responses to it, and the longer-term legacy that it will leave has quickly become a discussion about various...

Are some ethnic groups more vulnerable to COVID-19 than others?

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected some sections of the population more than others, and there are growing concerns that the UK’s minority ethnic groups are being...

Inequalities and the COVID-19 crisis

The Royal Economic Society has launched a series of webinars focusing on the economic issues and policy solutions to the COVID-19 crisis. This session, chaired by Rachel...

Private: We may be in this together, but that doesn’t mean we are in this equally

When even the prime minister has been laid so desperately low, it’s tempting to believe that we are all in this crisis very much together. It doesn’t matter how rich you...

The panel & contributors

The review will be led by an interdisciplinary panel chaired by Nobel Laureate Sir Angus Deaton and is comprised of world leaders in economics, sociology, demography,...