What's the future of corporation tax? podcast<p><span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">Corporation tax was introduced 60 years ago. Despite many predictions of its decline, it is now forecast to raise record amounts. </span></p>10 April 2025
Spring Statement 2025: IFS Zooms In podcast<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(13, 13, 13);counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;cursor:text;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"> What were the decisions and trade-offs made by Chancellor Reeves?</p>27 March 2025
The Schools Bill: what's changing and why? podcast<p class="p1">The bill aims to improve education and social care for children. But will it work?</p>11 March 2025
IFS Annual Lecture: Trade Wars and the Future of Globalisation conference 20 May 2025 <p>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. </span></p>
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 <p>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.</p>
Jobs landing page<p>At IFS, we recruit and train top-quality economists and professional support staff. We aim to foster a respectful and inclusive working environment.</p>20 July 2022
Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy The Research Centre at the heart of IFS is the CPP.
Scottish NHS is treating fewer patients than pre-pandemic, despite big increases in staffing Press ReleaseThe COVID-19 pandemic is having long-lasting impacts on NHS hospital activity, productivity and performance in Scotland, despite higher funding.9 February 2024
Scottish Budget implies real-terms cuts to health spending – a fact not revealed in official documentation Press ReleaseThe Scottish Government is raising taxes on the 5% highest-income Scots, but health funding is, on current plans, set to fall in real terms next year.6 February 2024
Itay Saporta Eksten visits IFS AnnouncementWe are pleased to welcome Professor Itay Saporta Eksten as a visitor to the IFS for the next eighteen months.31 January 2024
IFS Director Paul Johnson awarded honorary doctorate degree from University of Sussex AnnouncementIFS Director Paul Johnson has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree from University of Sussex. 26 January 2024
The next government will face some of the toughest choices in generations Press ReleaseOur programme of 2024 general election work begins, with the need for parties to be honest about the tough trade-offs they inevitably have to make.25 January 2024
Interest rate rises increase the expected annual cost to government of student loans by more than £10 billion Press Release"The loss of more than £10 billion per year is not being captured in official figures."9 January 2024
IFS responds to provisional Local Government Finance Settlement Press ReleaseOur initial response to the Local Government Finance Settlement for 2024-25.18 December 2023
A better way forward for the state pension – a ‘four-point pension guarantee’ Press ReleaseThe current state pension has many strengths, not least its simplicity. But research by the Pensions Review indicates several problems. 13 December 2023
Schools serving disadvantaged children have faced the biggest funding cuts Press ReleaseOur annual education spending report finds that rising costs are placing increasing pressure on all areas of education.11 December 2023
Around half of first-time buyers in their 20s receive financial help to buy their home, with large consequences for their subsequent wealth accumulation Press ReleaseWe examine the patterns of financial help for first-time home buyers.8 December 2023
Statement on Alistair Darling's passing AnnouncementPaul Johnson reflects on the death of our Pensions Review Chair Alistair Darling 4 December 2023
IFS co-organises Paris-London Public Economics Conference 2023 AnnouncementThis year's Paris-London Conference in public economics takes place on 7th and 8th December 2023. Register to attend before 30th November 2023.24 November 2023
Imran Rasul elected as EEA Vice-President AnnouncementCPP Director and UCL Professor Imran Rasul is the new Vice-President (President-Elect in 2025 & President in 2026) of the EEA.21 November 2023
Housing costs take up three-and-a-half times as much of the budgets of the poor as of the rich, with significant implications for their standard of living Press Release"It is not possible to understand income poverty or inequality without taking account of housing costs."17 November 2023
Declining education performance in Scotland, particularly in maths and science Press ReleaseThe performance of Scottish pupils in international PISA tests has declined over time in maths and science. 16 November 2023
Increasing concentration of high-skilled jobs in London means graduates elsewhere cannot fully capitalise on their education Press ReleaseThe current economic geography of the UK limits both social mobility and the effective use of talent across the country.13 November 2023
Early retirement increasingly concentrated amongst the wealthy Press ReleaseWe provide new evidence on retirement patterns in the UK.1 November 2023
Incapacity benefits changes strengthen work incentives for over a million, but hundreds of thousands left worse off Press Release520,000 individuals would see their benefit entitlements fall under the reform, typically by £390 per month.26 October 2023
Professor Imran Rasul to lead IFS new research project AnnouncementProfessor Imran Rasul, CPP Director, will lead an IFS project on economic opportunities across racial and ethnic groups in the United Kingdom.25 October 2023
No room for unfunded tax cuts or spending increases – this year or next Press ReleaseWe are in a horrible fiscal bind as low growth and high debt interest payments mean no room for manoeuvre.17 October 2023
