The Schools Bill: what's changing and why? podcast<p class="p1">The bill aims to improve education and social care for children. But will it work?</p>11 March 2025
Family values: inheritance, inequality and social mobility podcast<p><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;">Wealth concentration among baby boomers and stagnant earnings are driving the rise of the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’, affecting social mobility.</span></p>3 March 2025
How important is the OBR forecast? podcast<p>The OBR forecast will underpin the Chancellor’s decisions at the next Spring Forecast.</p>12 February 2025
Spring Statement 2025: IFS analysis event 27 March 2025 <p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(37, 61, 64);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:"DM Serif Text", serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">At this online event IFS researchers will present their initial analysis of the Chancellor's Spring Statement.</span></p>
How can people be better helped to draw on their pension wealth in retirement? event 1 April 2025 <p><span data-teams="true">This online event will present new analysis of the way in which defined contribution pension wealth is currently being accessed.</span></p>
IFS residential conference 2025: How do we build a business tax system for the 21st century? conference 3 April 2025 <p>This conference, in association with <a href="https://www.deloitte.co.uk">Deloitte</a>, will discuss the UK business tax system in the context of the new Corporate Tax Roadmap.</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.
Self-employment and labor market risks Working PaperThis paper finds that the self-employed are subject to larger earnings fluctuations than employees and they frequently transition into unemployment. 9 January 2024
Robust analysis of short panels Working PaperExamples of application to some static and dynamic binary, ordered and multiple discrete choice panel data models are presented.8 January 2024
A coefficient of variation for ordered categorical data: Analyzing relative health inequality and ageing in the UK and relative human resource inequality and gender in Canada Working PaperThe rise of ordinal data in empirical sciences calls for location and variation measurement instruments suitable for such data environments.21 December 2023
Measuring wellbeing growth and convergence in multivariate ordered categorical worlds: Has there been any levelling up in the United Kingdom? Working PaperWhilst there is strong evidence of growth, the results indicate that there is little evidence of "levelling up" type growth in the United Kingdom.21 December 2023
Adverse selection among early adopters and unraveling innovation Working PaperI provide an equilibrium analysis of 'selection markets,' where consumers vary in both their willingness to pay and the cost to the seller.18 December 2023
Social proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India Working PaperWe study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health behaviour campaigns.7 December 2023
Cost-sharing in medical care can increase adult mortality: Evidence from Colombia Working PaperTo our knowledge, this study is the first to show a relationship between cost-sharing and adult mortality risk in a low- or middle-income country.6 December 2023
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
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
Inference for rank-rank regressions Working PaperSlope coefficients in rank-rank regressions are popular measures of intergenerational mobility.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
