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What's the future of corporation tax?
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Corporation tax was introduced 60 years ago. Despite many predictions of its decline, it is now forecast to raise record amounts. 
10 April 2025
Spring Statement 2025: IFS Zooms In
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27 March 2025
The Schools Bill: what's changing and why?
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The bill aims to improve education and social care for children. But will it work?
11 March 2025
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IFS Annual Lecture: Trade Wars and the Future of Globalisation
conference 20 May 2025
Professor Meredith Crowley will deliver the 2025 <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;">IFS Annual Lecture. 
From Sure Start to Family Hubs: how can evidence best inform policymaking for joined up family support in the early years?
conference 22 May 2025
This event will explore the evidence and policy landscape around early years family support. It will also mark the launch of a new report from IFS.
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Dr Jack Britton

Associate Director

Jack joined the IFS in 2013 and works in the Education and Skills sector. His main interests lie in human capital accumulation and discrete choice dynamic modelling. Jack's recent work has included analysis of the effect of replacing the EMA with the 16-19 Bursary in England on participation and attainment, measuring human capital of university graduates in England, and modelling the interaction between health and human capital.

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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

The Education Maintenance Allowance did not improve attainment or earnings for disadvantaged young people in England

Press Release

The Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) failed to achieve its ultimate aims of improving educational attainment and labour market outcomes.

26 February 2025

The short- and long-run effects of paying disadvantaged teenagers to go to school

Working Paper

This working paper studies the long-run effect of a cash transfer to disadvantaged students on educational attainment, earnings and crime.

26 February 2025

The short- and long-run effects of the Education Maintenance Allowance

Report

This report studies the long-run effect of the Education Maintenance Allowance on educational attainment, earnings and crime.

26 February 2025

Why are universities in financial trouble?

Podcast

Why are universities struggling, what happens if they go bust and what can government do to help? What other challenges do the HE and FE sectors face?

21 August 2024

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Unveiling school effectiveness: Progress 8, parental choices and closing the achievement gap

Report

We show that Progress 8 is a reliable measure of school effectiveness and that parents often do not apply to their most effective local school.

21 September 2023

Parents, especially poorer ones, overlook value added when applying to secondary schools

Press Release

Parents commonly do not apply to the most effective secondary school in their local area, this is especially true for parents living in poorer areas.

19 September 2023

Exploiting discontinuities in secondary school attendance to evaluate value added

Working Paper

We use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England.

19 July 2023

Can higher education policy boost intergenerational mobility? Evidence from an empirical matching model

Working Paper

We use rich administrative data to estimate a novel two-sided matching model of sorting into field and institution within higher education.

26 January 2023

Higher degree classes are associated with substantially higher earnings

Press Release

"Even after controlling for student characteristics, higher degree classes are associated with substantially higher earnings."

20 April 2022

How much does it pay to get good grades at university?

Report

We investigate variation in early-career earnings by degree class outcome using the Department for Education’s Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset.

20 April 2022

English universities ranked on their contributions to social mobility – and the least selective post-1992 universities come out on top

Press Release

We look at how higher education contributes to social mobility.

24 November 2021

Which university degrees are best for intergenerational mobility?

Report

We investigate the extent to which individual universities, subjects and courses promote intergenerational mobility.

24 November 2021

IFS recruitment event 2021

Event 19 October 2021 at 18:00 Please see above for details on how to watch this event online.

We are always looking for passionate full-time and part-time research economists, post-doctoral fellows, graduate scholars and summer students. This is a great opportunity to meet us, and ask question about life at IFS and our recruitment process.

New IFS student finance calculator shows: no easy choices for student finance reform

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We have constructed a new student finance calculator, based on our detailed analysis of graduate earnings and the student finance system, which allows users to look at the effects of changing any parameter of the system.

20 September 2021

Higher education enables graduates to move to places with better career prospects – but this leads to brain drain from the North and coastal areas

Press Release

Patterns of graduate mobility exacerbate geographical inequalities in skills.

17 September 2021

London calling? Higher education, geographical mobility and early-career earnings

Report

In this report, we study the link between higher education, geographical mobility and outcomes for individuals and regions.

17 September 2021

The impact of living costs on the returns to higher education

Report

In this report, we investigate how adjusting for cost of living affects the returns to different higher education options.

17 September 2021

How much does degree choice matter?

Working Paper

This paper investigates variation in returns to different higher education ‘degrees’ (subject-institution combinations) in the UK.

11 August 2021

Revisiting the solution of dynamic discrete choice models: time to bring back Keane and Wolpin (1994)?

Working Paper

We develop an improved version of the Keane and Wolpin (1994) method for addressing the ‘curse of dimensionality’ in the estimation of dynamic models.

28 May 2021

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Rethinking the Education Maintenance Allowance: Lessons from a long-term analysis

The Education Maintenance Allowance did not improve attainment or earnings for disadvantaged young people in England

The short- and long-run effects of paying disadvantaged teenagers to go to school

The short- and long-run effects of the Education Maintenance Allowance

Why are universities in financial trouble?

Unveiling school effectiveness: Progress 8, parental choices and closing the achievement gap

Parents, especially poorer ones, overlook value added when applying to secondary schools

Exploiting discontinuities in secondary school attendance to evaluate value added

Can higher education policy boost intergenerational mobility? Evidence from an empirical matching model

Higher degree classes are associated with substantially higher earnings

How much does it pay to get good grades at university?

English universities ranked on their contributions to social mobility – and the least selective post-1992 universities come out on top

Which university degrees are best for intergenerational mobility?

IFS recruitment event 2021

New IFS student finance calculator shows: no easy choices for student finance reform

Higher education enables graduates to move to places with better career prospects – but this leads to brain drain from the North and coastal areas

London calling? Higher education, geographical mobility and early-career earnings

The impact of living costs on the returns to higher education

How much does degree choice matter?

Revisiting the solution of dynamic discrete choice models: time to bring back Keane and Wolpin (1994)?

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