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
Do work search requirements work? Evidence from a UK reform targeting single parents Working PaperWe assess whether work search requirements for out-of-work welfare claimants are effective in inducing individuals to work & delivering fiscal savings1 February 2023
Intensive margin labour supply and the dynamic effects of in-work transfers Working PaperHow should dynamic considerations affect the design of in-work transfers?1 February 2023
Can higher education policy boost intergenerational mobility? Evidence from an empirical matching model Working PaperWe use rich administrative data to estimate a novel two-sided matching model of sorting into field and institution within higher education.26 January 2023
Labeled loans and human capital investments Working PaperWe provide rigorous evidence of the impacts of labelled microcredit on household sanitation investment and borrowing behaviour.24 January 2023
To invest or not to invest in sanitation: the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power Working PaperWe study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions.24 January 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.18 January 2023
The effect of pension wealth on employment Working PaperThis study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment.3 January 2023
A monetary-fiscal theory of sudden inflations Working PaperThis paper posits an information channel as the explanation for sudden inflations.20 December 2022
Identifying the effect of persuasion Working PaperThis paper examines a commonly used measure of persuasion whose precise interpretation has been obscure in the literature.14 December 2022
Job ladder, human capital, and the cost of job loss Working PaperWe propose a structural model of the labour market with heterogeneous firms, on-the-job search and accumulation of specific and general human capital.13 December 2022
Parental investments and intra-household inequality in child human capital: evidence from a survey experiment Working PaperThis paper studies the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain intra-household inequality and its determinants.7 December 2022
Savings after retirement Working PaperWe discuss the empirical strategies used to differentiate the motivations behind the 'retirement savings puzzle.'5 December 2022
Shaping gender-stereotypical beliefs: the role of parents and peers Working PaperWe use a lab-in-the-field experiment to explore the influence of parents and peers in shaping adolescents’ beliefs on gender-stereotypical fields.2 December 2022
Moment conditions for dynamic panel logit models with fixed effects Working PaperThis paper investigates the construction of moment conditions in discrete choice panel data with individual specific fixed effects.1 December 2022
Father of the bride, or steel magnolias? Targeting men, women or both to reduce child marriage Working PaperWe conduct a cluster-randomized control trial of an edutainment intervention aimed at delaying marriage of adolescent children in rural Pakistan.25 November 2022
Parental beliefs, perceived health risks, and time investment in children: evidence from COVID-19 Working PaperWhat role did parental beliefs about risks and returns play for the allocation of time with children during the pandemic?25 November 2022
Firm heterogeneity and the impact of payroll taxes Working PaperWe examine the heterogeneous impact of a large payroll tax cut for older workers in Hungary.24 November 2022
Revealed beliefs and the marriage market return to education Working PaperThis paper develops a new methodology to analyse how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters’ schooling and marriage.23 November 2022
VOG: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Impact of Air Pollution on Student Learning Outcomes Working PaperThis study pairs variation stemming from volcanic eruptions with student test scores to estimate the impact of particulates on student performance.22 November 2022
Public childcare, labor market outcomes of caregivers, and child development: experimental evidence from Brazil Working PaperThis study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their caregivers.8 November 2022
