Election Special: Your questions answered podcastIn the final run up to the election, we answer your questions about everything from borrowing to AI to the part that luck plays in the economy. 27 June 2024
Election Special: The Labour manifesto explained podcastWe discuss the Labour manifesto launched on Thursday and give our reaction to the policies and pledges within it.14 June 2024
Election Special: The Conservative manifesto explained podcastWe discuss the Conservative manifesto launched on Tuesday and give our reaction to the policies and pledges within it.12 June 2024
General Election 2024: IFS manifesto analysis event 24 June 2024 IFS researchers and Director Paul Johnson will deliver their analysis of the parties' manifestos at a live-streamed press briefing.
Inaugural IFS postdoc workshop workshop 4 July 2024 This academic workshop on applied public and labour economics will feature presentations by alumni of the IFS postdoc scheme.
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2024 event 25 July 2024 This online event will present the key findings from our latest flagship annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK.
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.
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
Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes Working PaperWe study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers using rich administrative data from the Netherlands.7 November 2022
Technology, skills, and performance: the case of robots in surgery Working PaperThis paper investigates the potential of new technologies to reduce disparities in the provision of healthcare services.7 November 2022
Firms as tax collectors Working PaperWe show that delegating tax collection to large firms can help build tax capacity in weak-enforcement settings. 31 October 2022
The impact of area level mental health interventions on outcomes for secondary school pupils: Evidence from the HeadStart programme in England Working PaperThis paper provides the first robust evaluation of the impacts on school outcomes of HeadStart for area-level mental health interventions.13 October 2022
The health effects of universal early childhood interventions: evidence from Sure Start Working PaperWe evaluate the short- and medium-term health impacts of Sure Start.13 October 2022
