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.
IV Methods for Tobit Models Working PaperThis paper studies models of processes generating censored outcomes with endogenous explanatory variables and instrumental variable restrictions.3 October 2022
Prenatal sugar consumption and late-life human capital and health: analyses based on postwar rationing and polygenic scores Working PaperWe exploit the abolishment and subsequent reintroduction of rationing sweet confectionery in the UK and consider the effects on late-life health.26 September 2022
What drives wage stagnation: monopsony or monopoly? Working PaperWages for the vast majority of workers have stagnated since the 1980s while productivity has grown.26 September 2022
Market power and wage inequality Working PaperWe propose a theory of how market power affects wage inequality. 26 September 2022
Gender norms, violence and adolescent girls’ trajectories: evidence from a field experiment in India Working PaperWe compare the effectiveness of targeting only adolescent girls with an approach that engages with enforcers of gender norms in the wider community.26 September 2022
Job displacement costs of phasing out coal Working PaperWe use the dramatic collapse of the UK coal industry to estimate the long-term impact on displaced miners.14 September 2022
First generation elite: the role of school networks Working PaperIntergenerational persistence in studying for elite education is high across the world. We study why this phenomenon emerges.14 September 2022
Optimal random taxation and redistribution Working PaperWe assess the usefulness of stochastic redistribution among a continuum of risk-averse agents with quasilinear utilities in labor.7 September 2022
Are trade wars class wars? The importance of trade-induced horizontal inequality Working PaperThis paper demonstrates conceptually and empirically the importance of “trade-induced horizontal inequality."6 September 2022
Overconfidence and technology adoption in health care Working PaperWe study the determinants of adoption in the case of implantable cardiac defibrillators, for which we document large differences across hospitals.31 August 2022
Design of two-stage experiments with an application to spillovers in tax compliance Working PaperWe set up a framework to conduct experiments for estimating spillover effects when units are grouped into mutually exclusive clusters.22 August 2022
The impact of unions on nonunion wage setting: threats and bargaining Working PaperIn this paper we provide new estimates of the impact of unions on nonunion wage setting.18 August 2022
The distribution of doctor quality: evidence from cardiologists in England Working PaperThis paper provides new evidence on the role senior doctors play in determining patient outcomes.9 August 2022
Wealth, gifts and estate planning at the end of life Working PaperWe quantify the size and tax-responsiveness of financial transfers made to heirs before death.28 July 2022
Parental Investments and Intra-household Inequality in Child Human Capital: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment Working PaperI study the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants.21 July 2022
Can white elephants kill? Unintended consequences of infrastructure development Working PaperI provide evidence of the severe social costs imposed by infrastructure projects that are being implemented in the context of sewerage in Peru.12 July 2022
Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK Working PaperWe examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time in the UK.6 July 2022
Intergenerational income persistence: evidence for the UK Working PaperWe spotlight some newer directions in intergenerational mobility research within economics driven by changes in some key trends in the recent decades29 June 2022
In-kind transfers as insurance Working PaperUsing calorie shortfalls as a marginal utility proxy, we find that in-kind transfers are preferred for low-income Indian households.29 June 2022
Intergenerational income mobility in England and the importance of education Working PaperWe use newly linked UK administrative to estimate absolute income mobility for children born in England in the 1980s.17 June 2022
