Inheritance tax rises and the Budget: who's affected? podcast<p>We discuss how inheritance tax actually changed in the budget, who will be affected and whether it was a good idea.</p>15 November 2024
How big are the UK's demographic challenges? podcast<p>With birth rates at record lows, we ask what the implications are for the UK and how it might impact the public finances.</p>8 November 2024
What does the Budget mean for the UK? podcast<p>We discuss the Chancellor's first Budget and what impact the changes could have.</p>31 October 2024
IFS recruitment event: Summer students event 2 December 2024 <p>We're offer an opportunity to meet current IFS staff and find out more about our summer placement scheme for current university students.</p>
Challenges for the means-tested benefit system for older people event 11 December 2024 <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">At this online event, IFS researchers will present new research highlighting key issues with the benefit system around retirement age.</span></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.
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
The Conservatives and the Economy, 2010–24 Working PaperThis chapter documents the course of the economy over the last 14 years for the forthcoming book 'The Conservative Effect, 2010-2024'.3 June 2024
Targeting men, women or both to reduce child marriage Working Paper We conduct a cluster-randomized control trial of an edutainment intervention aimed at delaying marriage of adolescent children in rural Pakistan.28 May 2024
Inference for rank-rank regressions Working PaperSlope coefficients in rank-rank regressions are popular measures of intergenerational mobility.28 May 2024
Keeping the peace whilst getting your way: Information, persuasion and intimate partner violence Working PaperWe study the effects on intimate partner violence (IPV) of new information received by men and women, relevant to a high-stakes joint decision. 17 May 2024
The role of hospital networks in individual mortality Working PaperWe estimate that broad-network insurers reduce mortality because they steer patients to higher-quality providers and reduce hospital congestion.13 May 2024
Forced displacement, mental health, and child development: Evidence from Rohingya refugees Working PaperIn this study, we conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) involving 3,500 Rohingya mother-child pairs in refugee camps in Bangladesh.10 May 2024
Leveraging edutainment and social networks to foster interethnic harmony Working PaperUsing a cluster-randomised field experiment, this paper investigates the effectiveness of educational entertainment in promoting interethnic harmony.10 May 2024
