The £600 billion problem awaiting the next government podcastWe speak to David Gauke and Giles Wilkes, two experts who have been at the heart of the spending review process.25 April 2024
Be the Chancellor Our interactive tool lets you be the Chancellor. Change spending plans, set tax policies and see how your choices impact borrowing and debt.
Should we worry about government debt? podcastDavid Miles joins us to discuss high government debt and its impact on the economy. 11 April 2024
IFS Annual Lecture - Innovation and productivity policies: a budgetary perspective event 15 May 2024 Professor Heidi Williams (Dartmouth College) will deliver the 2024 IFS Annual Lecture on innovation and productivity policies.
Higher Education Access and Funding: challenges and policy options conference 14 May 2024 This one-day academic conference will look at access to and funding of Higher Education systems.
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
Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy The Research Centre at the heart of IFS is the CPP.
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 with 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
Parental labour market instability and children's mental health during the pandemic Working PaperIn this paper we study the impact of the COVID pandemic on the mental health of school-age children in England.1 August 2023
Exploiting discontinuities in secondary school attendance to evaluate value added Working PaperWe use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England.19 July 2023
Robust estimation and inference in panels with interactive fixed effects Working PaperWe consider estimation and inference for a regression coefficient in panels with interactive fixed effects (i.e., with a factor structure).7 July 2023
The heterogeneous effects of social assistance and unemployment insurance: evidence from a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings Working PaperWe empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. 5 June 2023
For better or worse? Subjective expectations and cost-benefit trade-offs in health behavior Working PaperWe apply a framework to the role of preferences and beliefs in health behavior, and we apply it to compliance behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic.16 May 2023
First generation elite: the role of school networks Working PaperThis paper shows differences in social capital are a key driver of the high intergenerational persistence in elite education. 5 May 2023
Design of partial population experiments with an application to spillovers in tax compliance Working PaperWe develop a framework to conduct experiments for estimating direct and spillover effects when units are grouped into mutually exclusive clusters.24 April 2023
Heterogeneity of consumption responses to income shocks in the presence of nonlinear persistence Working PaperWe use enhanced consumption data in the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics from 2005–2017 to explore the transmission of income shocks to consumption.14 April 2023
Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages Working PaperWe estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US.13 April 2023
Wealth and welfare across generations Working PaperThis paper examines why younger generations no longer have substantially more wealth than their recent predecessors did at the same age. 11 April 2023
Firm concentration & job design: the case of schedule flexible work arrangements Working PaperWe build a model of job design under monopsony to analyse the amenity value of job flexibility on offer across the wage and occupational distribution.6 April 2023
Household responses to trade shocks Working PaperWe study the responses of both individuals and their partners to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s.24 March 2023
Old age risks, consumption, and insurance Working PaperWe measure the effects of income and health shocks on consumption among U.S. households over age 65.21 March 2023
Intergenerational altruism and transfers of time and money: a life cycle perspective Working PaperWe find that time investments, educational investments, and assortative matching have a greater impact on generating inequality than cash transfers.28 February 2023
The effect of tax incentives on private pension saving Working PaperThis paper estimates the responsiveness of private pension saving to tax incentives for employees in England and Wales.24 February 2023
Who gives and receives substantial financial transfers in Britain? Working PaperWe document key patterns in the flow of significant gifts and loans between friends and family in Great Britain.13 February 2023
