How to reduce child poverty: compare the policy options calculator<p>Use these charts to compare policies for reducing child poverty and to examine how child poverty rates have changed over time across different groups.</p>3 October 2024
How can government reduce child poverty? podcast<p>We're exploring why there's been an increase in child poverty since 2010 and options the government has to reduce this.</p>3 October 2024
Are people saving enough into their pensions? podcastAutomatic enrolment has been successful in getting more people into workplace pensions, but are they saving enough?20 September 2024
Should the government increase capital gains tax? event 7 October 2024 This online event will look at the case for reforming capital gains tax and what the government could do in the upcoming budget.
IFS Green Budget 2024 event 10 October 2024 The IFS Green Budget will assess the state of the UK economy and the new government’s fiscal position ahead of their first Budget.
IFS Zooms In Live: How to make your first Budget a success event 23 October 2024 Join us for a special in-person recording of an episode of the IFS podcast the week ahead of Rachel Reeves' all-important first Budget.
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.
The effect of center-based early education on disadvantaged children’s developmental trajectories: experimental evidence from Colombia Working PaperWe study the impacts of high-quality, center-based early childhood education on low income children in Colombia, tracking participants over five years4 October 2024
Health inequality and health types Working PaperWe use k-means clustering, a machine learning technique, and Health and Retirement Study data to identify health types during middle and old age.3 October 2024
Health inequality and economic disparities by race, ethnicity, and gender Working PaperWe measure health inequality during middle and old age by race, ethnicity, and gender. 1 October 2024
Education and inequality: an international perspective Working PaperUsing existing literatures and new empirical evidence, we address whether educational expansion is an effective tool for reducing inequality. 20 September 2024
Seclusion and women's time: Descriptive evidence from India Working PaperWe use rich time-use data on where, and how, individuals spend their time to explore women’s seclusion in India.17 September 2024
What would you do with £500? (...in your own words) Working PaperWe use a new approach to better investigate differences in consumer behaviour in response to hypothetical, one-off gains and losses.12 September 2024
Focal pricing and pass-through Working PaperI show that the adoption and extent of focal pricing practices in an industry in general do not lower average pass-through of input cost changes.21 August 2024
Cheapflation and the rise of inflation inequality Working PaperUsing household scanner data for fast-moving consumer goods, we show that this was accompanied by historically high rates of inflation inequality.14 August 2024
The determinants of local housing supply in England Working PaperWe estimate local housing supply elasticities for 325 local authorities and 6,788 census tract areas in England.1 August 2024
Early home visiting delivery model and maternal and child mental health at primary school age Working PaperWe study the mental health impacts of a prenatal and infancy home visiting program for disadvantaged families, assessed through diagnostic interviews.30 July 2024
Imagine your life at 25: Gender conformity and later-life outcomes Working PaperWe analyse thousands of essays written by 11-year-old girls in 1969 to assess conformity with gender norms and its implications for future outcomes.29 July 2024
Evaluating pricing health insurance in lower-income countries: A field experiment in India Working PaperWe conducted a large-scale, 4-year trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India’s first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY.29 July 2024
Estimating intra-household sharing from time-use data Working PaperEstimating intra-household sharing is crucial to understanding overall inequality. However, expenditure data is almost always at the household level.19 July 2024
Production function estimation using subjective expectations data Working PaperImplementing a range of production function estimators on UK data, we find our results are similar to or more credible than widely-used alternatives.11 July 2024
Labour market matching, wages, and amenities Working PaperWe develop a constructive proof for the nonparametric identification of the model primitives from matched employer-employee data.9 July 2024
Intrahousehold welfare: Theory and application to Japanese data Working PaperWe construct a money metric measure of welfare that accounts for public goods (by using personalized prices) and the allocation of time.9 July 2024
The impact of labour demand shocks when occupational labour supplies are heterogeneous Working PaperWe study the heterogeneous impact of subsequent demand shifts on wages and employment in Germany.28 June 2024
The impact of flexibility at work on fertility Working PaperUsing the increase in work flexibility during the first Covid-19 lockdown, we find a significant and persistent increase in births nine months later.11 June 2024
Intergenerational mobility in socio-emotional skills Working PaperThis paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of socio-emotional skills during childhood, using the 1970 British Cohort Study in the UK.5 June 2024
The intergenerational elasticity of earnings: Exploring the mechanisms Working PaperWe use data covering a single cohort’s first 55 years of life to explain the differences in the intergenerational elasticity of earnings.3 June 2024
