The Autumn Statement explained podcastWe analyse the Chancellor's 2023 Autumn Statement.24 November 2023
The Autumn Statement 2023 explained in 90 seconds explainerPaul Johnson responds to Jeremy Hunt's 2023 Autumn Statement. 22 November 2023
Cake or biscuit? The UK's byzantine VAT system explained podcastThis week, we dive into the oddities of the VAT system.16 November 2023
Education spending: an engine for levelling-up? event 11 December 2023 The launch of the 2023 IFS Annual Report on Education Spending in England, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
Social mobility and wealth conference 12 December 2023 At this in-person event, IFS researchers will share findings from ESRC-funded research on social mobility and its drivers.
Where next for the state pension? event 13 December 2023 At this online event, IFS researchers will present findings from a major new report on the future of the state pension in the UK.
Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy landing pageThe ESRC has funded a research centre at IFS since 1991, recognised as a global centre of excellence and now with UKRI Research Institute status.15 July 2022
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
The role of privately held firms in income inequality Working PaperWe 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 PaperThis 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 PaperWe 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
A spouse and a house are all we need? Housing demand, labor supply and divorce over the lifecycle Working PaperWe use a limited commitment framework to study how changes in marriage value affect household decisions over the lifecycle. 6 November 2023
Powerful t-tests in the presence of nonclassical measurement error Working PaperThis paper proposes an alternative to the t-test hypothesis that a coefficient in linear regression is equal to zero when a regressor is mismeasured.2 November 2023
Inference for rank-rank regressions Working PaperSlope coefficients in rank-rank regressions are popular measures of intergenerational mobility.2 November 2023
Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income Working PaperThis paper studies how the tax-and-transfer system mitigates income inequalities over the lifetime, which can lead to disparities in living standards.2 November 2023
The effect of reducing welfare access on employment, health, and children's long-run outcomes Working PaperWe find substantial and heterogeneous employment responses that increased average income despite reduced transfers.30 October 2023
The minimum wages, turnover, and the shape of the wage distribution Working PaperWe find that minimum wage hikes don't cause an unusual concentration of job leavers below the new minimum wage, defying neoclassical model prediction.30 October 2023
Accident-induced absence from work and wage ladders Working PaperHow do temporary spells of absence from work affect individuals’ labor trajectory? To answer this question, we augment a ‘wage ladder’ model. 25 October 2023
Inflation measurement with high frequency data Working PaperWe use 8 years of data on 178 consumer product categories to compare bilateral and multilateral index number methods for computing monthly inflation.18 October 2023
Identifying network ties from panel data: theory and an application to tax competition Working PaperWe present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between agents.11 October 2023
Identification analysis in models with unrestricted latent variables: Fixed effects and initial conditions Working PaperExamples of application to some static and dynamic binary, ordered and multiple discrete choice panel data models are presented.11 October 2023
Mafia infiltrations in times of crisis: Evidence from the Covid-19 shock Working PaperWe analyse the risk of mafia capture of firms operating in the legal economy and the relationship between firm performance and mafia infiltration.9 October 2023
The labor market effects of disability benefit loss Working PaperLeveraging age and health cutoffs in the reassessment, the paper estimates employment responses to loss or reduction of benefits.29 September 2023
The effects of pension reforms on physician labour supply: Evidence from the English NHS Working PaperWe examine labour supply responses of senior doctors following a pension reform that moved NHS staff from a final salary to career average pension.29 September 2023
Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers Working PaperWe highlight the importance of social skills as a driver for wage growth for UK workers few educational qualifications. 19 September 2023
Estimating intra-household sharing from time-use data Working PaperThis report shows that it is possible to use time-use data to estimate resource sharing in households via linear regression. 8 September 2023
Targeting taxes on local externalities Working PaperWe consider optimal anonymous consumption taxes in situations where the magnitude of an externality varies with individuals who cause it.14 August 2023
The effect of classroom rank on learning throughout elementary school: experimental evidence from Ecuador Working PaperWe study the impact of classroom rank on children’s learning using a unique experiment from Ecuador.8 August 2023
