Countering tax avoidance in the UK: which way forward

Understand this issue

Statement on Alistair Darling's passing

announcement

Paul Johnson reflects on the death of our Pensions Review Chair Alistair Darling

4 December 2023

IFS contributor Claudia Goldin wins Nobel Prize in economics

announcement

Committee cites her work on generations of women in the labour market. 

9 October 2023

Decades of benefit reforms have pushed more people into work – but very often into part-time, low-paid work with little prospect of progression

press release

UK benefit reforms in recent decades have followed a consistent pattern.

1 February 2023

Policy analysis

Around half of first-time buyers in their 20s receive financial help to buy their home, with large consequences for their subsequent wealth accumulation

press release

We examine the patterns of financial help for first-time home buyers.

8 December 2023

Housing costs take up three-and-a-half times as much of the budgets of the poor as of the rich, with significant implications for their standard of living

press release

"It is not possible to understand income poverty or inequality without taking account of housing costs."

17 November 2023

Increasing concentration of high-skilled jobs in London means graduates elsewhere cannot fully capitalise on their education

press release

The current economic geography of the UK limits both social mobility and the effective use of talent across the country.

13 November 2023

Academic research

IFS co-organises Paris-London Public Economics Conference 2023

announcement

This year's Paris-London Conference in public economics takes place on 7th and 8th December 2023. Register to attend before 30th November 2023.

24 November 2023

Imran Rasul elected as EEA Vice-President

announcement

CPP Director and UCL Professor Imran Rasul is the new Vice-President (President-Elect in 2025 & President in 2026) of the EEA.

21 November 2023

Call for papers: 5th World Bank/IFS/ODI Research Conference

announcement

Submissions are open until 15th May for the 5th World Bank/IFS/ODI Research Conference on the "Political Economy of Public Finances".

3 April 2023