Trade Wars: The end of globalisation? podcast<p>Rising tariffs and trade wars are reshaping global trade. Is this the end of globalisation—and what does it mean for the UK and the world economy?</p>4 June 2025
Why is the government reforming health-related benefits? podcast<p>We discuss the government's welfare reforms aimed at helping sick and disabled people into work, and what the changes mean for health-related benefits</p>14 May 2025
What's the future of corporation tax? podcast<p><span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">Corporation tax was introduced 60 years ago. Despite many predictions of its decline, it is now forecast to raise record amounts. </span></p>10 April 2025
Spending Review 2025: IFS analysis event 12 June 2025 <p>At this online event, <span class="TextRun SCXW147924733 BCX8 NormalTextRun" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-user-drag:none;font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;line-height:20.85px;margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-US">IFS researchers presented their overnight analysis of the Spending Review.</span></p>
CIOT/IFS Debate: What next for international tax co-operation? event 16 June 2025 <p>At this online event <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:"Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">an expert panel will debate the future of international tax co-operation.</span></p>
Scaling early childhood development programmes and policies in low- and middle-income countries conference 24 June 2025 <p><span data-teams="true">Thrive, on behalf of IFS and OPM, is hosting a two-day international interdisciplinary conference.</span></p>
Jobs landing page<p>At IFS, we recruit and train top-quality economists and professional support staff. We aim to foster a respectful and inclusive working environment.</p>20 July 2022
Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy The Research Centre at the heart of IFS is the CPP.
The asymptotic distribution of the sum of weighted squared residuals in the binary choice model Frank Windmeijer Published on 1 January 1990 Research methods Methods
Gender norms, violence and adolescent girls’ trajectories: Evidence from India comment Changing the attitudes and behaviours of those enforcing restrictive societal norms is critical for meaningful improvements in women’s wellbeing. 24 October 2022
Spending Review 2025: What it means and why it matters podcast We take a closer look at the Spending Review and what the policies mean for public services, investment and the wider economy. 12 June 2025
Trade Wars: The end of globalisation? podcast Rising tariffs and trade wars are reshaping global trade. Is this the end of globalisation—and what does it mean for the UK and the world economy? 4 June 2025
Which places have the highest standard of living? comment Measuring living standards using average household spending gives a starkly different picture of regional inequalities than using average income. 11 April 2025
ABC of SV: Limited Information Likelihood Inference in Stochastic Volatility Jump-Diffusion Models report We develop novel methods for estimation and filtering of continuous-time models with stochastic volatility and jumps using so-called Approximate Bayesian Compu- tation which build likelihoods based on limited information. 12 August 2014
Assessing the economic benefits of education: reconciling microeconomic and macroeconomic approaches report This CAYT report discusses the strengths and limitations of several approaches to assessing the effect of education on productivity. 14 March 2013
Estimating intra-household sharing from time-use data working paper Estimating intra-household sharing is crucial to understanding overall inequality. However, expenditure data is almost always at the household level. 2 May 2025
Focal pricing constraints and pass-through of input cost changes working paper I show that the adoption and extent of focal pricing practices in an industry in general do not lower average pass-through of input cost changes. 2 May 2025
Using tax records to correct for under-representation of top income sources in surveys journal article We show that the survey correction method of Blanchet, Flores and Morgan (2022) can fail to correct its structure by components. 6 May 2025
