The £600 billion problem awaiting the next government podcastWe speak to David Gauke and Giles Wilkes, two experts who have been at the heart of the spending review process.25 April 2024
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Should we worry about government debt? podcastDavid Miles joins us to discuss high government debt and its impact on the economy. 11 April 2024
IFS Annual Lecture - Innovation and productivity policies: a budgetary perspective event 15 May 2024 Professor Heidi Williams (Dartmouth College) will deliver the 2024 IFS Annual Lecture on innovation and productivity policies.
Higher Education Access and Funding: challenges and policy options conference 14 May 2024 This one-day academic conference will look at access to and funding of Higher Education systems.
Jobs landing pageAt IFS, we recruit and train top-quality economists and professional support staff. We aim to foster a respectful and inclusive working environment.20 July 2022
Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy The Research Centre at the heart of IFS is the CPP.
Taxing high-net-worth individuals: experience from Indonesia Journal articleThe article is a response to Gabriel Zucman's paper 'Globalisation, taxation and inequality'.7 September 2023
Is it time to reboot welfare economics? Overview Journal articleThe articles in this Fiscal Studies symposium engage with the question of how to revive normative questions as a central issue in economic scholarship5 September 2023
Globalisation, taxation and inequality Journal articleThis article reviews some of the challenges of increasing the progressivity of tax systems in a globalised world.31 August 2023
Twenty-five years of income inequality in Britain: The role of wages, household earnings and redistribution Journal articleWe study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. 19 July 2023
The effect of doctor strikes on patient outcomes: Evidence from the English NHS Journal articleWe show that while many negative effects of the strikes were mitigated, the disruptions still had negative consequences for some minority groups.24 June 2023
Heterogeneity of consumption responses to income shocks in the presence of nonlinear persistence Journal articleIn this paper we use the enhanced consumption data in the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics to explore the transmission of income shocks to consumption.15 June 2023
Sanitation and marriage markets in India: Evidence from the Total Sanitation Campaign Journal articleThis paper uses the Indian human development household survey (IHDS) to measure the additional value of sanitation within the marriage arrangement.23 March 2023
Fiscal Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1 Journal issueFiscal Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1: Symposium: the global minimum tax20 March 2023
Symposium: the global minimum tax – introduction Journal articleThe group of papers included in this symposium address some of the key issues arising in the design of a Global Minimum Tax.20 March 2023
Empirical evidence on the global minimum tax: What is a critical mass and how large is the substance-based income exclusion? Journal articleThis paper presents empirical evidence on the proposed global minimum tax (GMT) of the OECD's Pillar 2.20 March 2023
Haste makes no waste: positive peer effects of classroom speed competition on learning Journal articleThis study investigates the effects of speed competition in classrooms on young pupils' learning outcomes.16 February 2023
Community matters: Heterogeneous impacts of a sanitation intervention Journal articleWe study the effectiveness of a widely adopted participatory community-level information intervention aimed at improving sanitation.8 February 2023
Labeled loans and human capital investments Journal articleWe provide novel evidence that labeled microcredit is effective in influencing household borrowing and investment decisions.14 January 2023
Saving lives by tying hands: The unexpected effects of constraining health care providers Journal article We conclude that, despite distorting medical decisions, constraining ED doctors can induce cost-effective reductions in mortality.6 January 2023
The gendered division of paid and domestic work under lockdown Journal articleThis paper provides novel empirical evidence on the effects of the pandemic on the division of labour between parents of school-aged children.21 November 2022
How should we fund end-of-life care in the US? Journal articleDying is expensive in America. We discuss the current funding of end-of-life care in the US.15 November 2022
Symposium: perspectives on carbon taxes – introduction Journal articleIn this inaugural issue we focus on global climate change, and in particular on policies and practices to tax carbon emissions.19 October 2022
Tax policies to reduce carbon emissions Journal articleWe argue for greater rationalisation of environmental taxes in the UK and other developed economies.19 October 2022
