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

We look at the patterns in the giving and receiving of significant wealth transfers during life, and the association of transfers with life events.

Older people in England, on average, hold a lot of wealth. 

As individuals are given more control over saving for retirement and use of pension wealth, the ability to plan is increasingly important.

IFS has launched a new searchable directory of Low and Middle Income country Longitudinal Population Studies. Developed on behalf of the Economic and

On 1st of September of 2017, Laura Abramovsky spoke at HMRC's International Tax Training Programme, a flagship programme run by HMRC on behalf of the Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators (CATA). Laura introduced IFS' work to support evidence-based tax policy and administration design in t...

Researchers from the DfID-funded Centre for Tax Analysis in Developing Countries (TAXDEV) at the IFS have completed their most recent trip to Ghana’s Ministry of Finance as part of our collaborative research and capacity development programme. During this visit (7th to 11th August), as well as...

Inheritances and large gifts received by English individuals born between the 1920s and 1950s do not appear to have increased the degree of inequality

Life at older ages will look very different for women in the early 2020s than it does today.