Jonathan is an Associate Director at IFS and Head of the Retirement, Savings, and Ageing sector. He is a Co-Principal Investigator of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and a Director of the Pensions Review, a review of the UK pension system and of the future of financial security in retirement. Most of his research focuses on understanding economic activity in later life, pensions, saving for retirement, and their interactions with public policies. He also leads the Deaton Review Country Studies project, which examines labour market and income inequalities in 17 European and North American countries. He is a former editor of the flagship IFS reports on Living Standards, Inequality, and Poverty.
Education
PhD Economics, University College London, 2020
MRes (Distinction) Economics, University College London, 2014
MPhil (Distinction) Economics, University of Cambridge, 2011
BA (1st Class) Economics, University of Cambridge, 2010
This article for Prospect magazine discusses the impact of the recession on rich and poor, young and old, and asks if we really are all in it together.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has today published its annual statistics on the distribution of household income in the UK. The latest data cover years up to and including 2012–13. This observation briefly highlights some of the key findings from DWP’s report.
In this briefing note, we combine various data sources to provide for the first time a consistent picture on how the size and composition of the public sector workforce has changed over the past 50 years.
Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts for public sector pay and employment suggest continuing cuts to public employment and large squeezes in pay relative to the private sector. Our analysis suggests that public sector pay relative to private sector pay will now return to its pre crisis level in 2013-14, two years earlier than implied by past forecasts. Forecast squeezes to public sector pay up to 2018-19 would further reduce the public-private pay gap below levels last seen in the early 2000s, when parts of the public sector had difficulties recruiting and retaining staff.
This research indicates that grammar schools are disproportionately unlikely to admit students who are eligible for free school meals, even when conditioning on their academic performance in primary school.
New work by IFS researchers, funded by the Sutton Trust, suggests that grammar schools are disproportionately unlikely to admit students who are eligible for free school meals, even when conditioning on their academic performance in primary school. They are by contrast disproportionately likely to admit children who have attended private schools before age 11.
The official statistics on the distribution of income and the extent of poverty in the UK in 2011-12 were released on Thursday 13 June 2013. Analysis in this report uses the underlying data.
