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 Statement 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 Statement.</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 45, Issue 2 Published on 28 June 2024 Fiscal Studies: Volume 45, Issue 2 Poverty, inequality and social mobility
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
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
Air pollution in England by MSOA over time, measured by PM2.5 exposure, 2003 to 2023 data item Average exposure to PM2.5 in England fell by 54% between 2003 and 2023. Almost everywhere in England is now below England’s 2040 target for PM2.5. 6 December 2024
How should governments help households during an energy crisis? comment The government spent billions on support to help households with their energy bills in 2022–23. Could a better-designed package have saved money? 31 January 2025
Share of 25- to 34-year-olds living with parents up by over a third since the mid 2000s press release The rise in people living with their parents has been concentrated among those in their late 20s and varies substantially by ethnicity. 11 January 2025
Exposure to air pollution in England, 2003–23 report We set out how air pollution (PM2.5) has changed across England and explore inequalities by ethnicity, income deprivation, region and age. 6 December 2024
The menopause "penalty" working paper We show that a menopause diagnosis leads to lasting drops in earnings and employment, alongside greater reliance on social transfers. 21 March 2025
Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR) supplement launches in Oxford Open Economics announcement The supplement contains a set of 27 papers and an editorial summary on five key themes of inequality, from 74 authors from wide range of disciplines. 3 March 2025
Imagine your life at 25: gender conformity and later-life outcomes working paper We analyse thousands of essays written by 11-year-old girls in 1969 to assess conformity with gender norms and its implications for future outcomes. 22 February 2025
