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How did parents’ experiences in the labour market shape children’s social and emotional development during the pandemic?

report

Around 50% of families saw changes in labour market status during the COVID-19 pandemic. This impacted the emotional development of their children.

1 August 2023

Inequalities: which ones matter, and what to do about them?

presentation

Paul Johnson gave a talk at the Oxford Martin School where he drew on the extensive work of the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities.

27 February 2023

One year on from the backlog recovery plan: what next for NHS waiting lists?

report

NHS performance against its plan to clear the backlog of elective care has so far been mixed. We examine when NHS waiting lists could start to fall.

8 February 2023

Policy analysis

Housing costs and income inequality in the UK

report

This report sheds light on some of the drivers of changes in housing costs over time for different groups.

17 November 2023

Socio-economic inequality in Scottish education

report

We examine how less affluent students perform compared with their more affluent peers in PISA tests, ahead of the new data release in December 2023.

16 November 2023

Assessing the Welsh Government’s consultation on reforms to council tax

report

We analyse the impact of the possible approaches to council tax reform set out in the Welsh Government’s consultation on ‘A fairer council tax’.

14 November 2023

Academic research

The role of privately held firms in income inequality

working paper

We study the role of privately held firms in income inequality in Finland, especially looking at the the role of retained earnings.

29 November 2023

Public service delivery, exclusion and externalities: Theory and experimental evidence from India

working paper

This paper provides novel evidence on the trade-off between public service delivery and free riding in low- and middle-income countries.

15 November 2023

Walk the talk: Measuring green preferences with social media data

working paper

We created a unique data set based on social media data by collecting all the tweets of 54,000 Swedish citizens between January and June 2019.

6 November 2023