The Schools Bill: what's changing and why? podcast<p class="p1">The bill aims to improve education and social care for children. But will it work?</p>11 March 2025
Family values: inheritance, inequality and social mobility podcast<p><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;">Wealth concentration among baby boomers and stagnant earnings are driving the rise of the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’, affecting social mobility.</span></p>3 March 2025
How important is the OBR forecast? podcast<p>The OBR forecast will underpin the Chancellor’s decisions at the next Spring Forecast.</p>12 February 2025
Spring Forecast 2025: IFS analysis event 27 March 2025 <p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(37, 61, 64);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:"DM Serif Text", serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;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;">At this online event IFS researchers will present their initial analysis of the Chancellor's Spring Forecast.</span></p>
How can people be better helped to draw on their pension wealth in retirement? event 1 April 2025 <p><span data-teams="true">This online event will present new analysis of the way in which defined contribution pension wealth is currently being accessed.</span></p>
IFS residential conference 2025: How do we build a business tax system for the 21st century? conference 3 April 2025 <p>This conference, in association with <a href="https://www.deloitte.co.uk">Deloitte</a>, will discuss the UK business tax system in the context of the new Corporate Tax Roadmap.</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.
Fiscal Studies, Volume 36, No. 3, September 2015 Published on 15 September 2015 Fiscal Studies, Volume 36, No. 3, September 2015
Two-child limit mitigation in Scotland would help larger poor families but policy design could harm work incentives comment Mitigating the two-child limit policy would be an effective way to reduce child poverty, but designing an effective policy is not straightforward. 14 March 2025
Rethinking the Education Maintenance Allowance: Lessons from a long-term analysis comment This evidence should prompt us to look beyond simple financial incentives for classroom attendance. 10 March 2025
Family values: inheritance, inequality and social mobility podcast Wealth concentration among baby boomers and stagnant earnings are driving the rise of the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’, affecting social mobility. 3 March 2025
How can people be better helped to draw on their pension wealth in retirement? event 1 April 2025 at 10:00 This online event will present new analysis of the way in which defined contribution pension wealth is currently being accessed.
How can policy boost productivity growth? conference 25 March 2025 at 09:30 At this policy conference, four panels of experts will give their perspectives and recommendations on four key areas of the UK’s productivity problem.
The role of changing health in rising health-related benefit claims report Is the working-age population less healthy since the pandemic? What role is changing health playing in rising health-related benefit claims? 12 March 2025
Why do couples and singles save during retirement? Household heterogeneity and its aggregate implications journal article We find that most households save more for medical expenses than for bequests but that richer households and couples save more for bequests. 1 March 2025
Specialised courts and the reporting of intimate partner violence: Evidence from Spain journal article We assess the effect of the creation of specialised courts on the reporting of IPV (intimate partner violence), and the incidence of IPV in Spain. 1 November 2024
Education and inequality: an international perspective journal article We study whether educational expansion is effective for reducing inequality and why some educational systems are associated more with lower inequality 2 October 2024
