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.
Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighbourhoods and academic achievement across countries Working PaperIn this paper, we consider the problem of accounting for uncertainty by constructing confidence sets for the rank of each population.17 January 2022
Managing retirement incomes Working PaperIn this paper we discuss the state of the literature relating to the decumulation of retirement wealth and the management of retirement incomes.14 January 2022
Measuring top income shares in the UK Working PaperThis paper examines measurement error in the share of income going to the top 1% (and other subgroups) that comes from estimation of the denominator.14 January 2022
Rationalizability, cost-rationalizability, and Afriat’s efficiency index Working PaperThis note explains the equivalence between approximate rationalizability and approximate cost-rationalizability within the context of consumer demand.11 January 2022
Does going cashless make you tax-rich? Evidence from India’s demonetization experiment Working PaperThis paper investigates the effect of electronic payments technology on firms’ tax compliance in a large developing economy.11 January 2022
Helping struggling students and benefiting all: peer effects in primary education Working PaperWe study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the academic performance of their higher-achieving classmates.7 January 2022
Inequality and the Covid crisis in the United Kingdom Working PaperWe review the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on inequalities in education, the labour market, living standards, mental health, and wealth in the UK.4 January 2022
Dynamic ordered panel logit models Working PaperWe study a dynamic ordered logit model for panel data with fixed effects.28 December 2021
Intertemporal income shifting and the taxation of business owner-managers Working PaperWe show that the large responses of UK company owner-managers to personal taxes are due to intertemporal income shifting.13 December 2021
Bounding treatment effects by pooling limited information across observations Working PaperWe provide novel bounds on average treatment effects (on the treated) that are valid under an unconfoundedness assumption.13 December 2021
The distributional and employment impacts of nationwide Minimum Wage changes Working PaperWe estimate the effect of the introduction of the UK’s National Living Wage in 2016, and increases in it up to 2019, using a new empirical method.9 December 2021
Effect of health insurance in India: a randomized controlled trial Working PaperWe report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households.7 December 2021
Inference on a distribution from noisy draws Working PaperWe consider a situation where the distribution of a random variable is being estimated by the empirical distribution of noisy measurements of that variable.7 December 2021
Sanitation and marriage markets in India: evidence from the total sanitation campaign Working PaperWe analyse marriage decisions in rural India, focusing on the added attractiveness of sanitation within the marital living arrangement.3 December 2021
Product market competition, creative destruction and innovation Working PaperWe examine the economic analysis of the relationship between innovation and product market competition.3 December 2021
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 decisions3 December 2021
When nature calls back: sustaining behavioural change in rural Pakistan Working PaperWe implement a mixed method approach to assess whether, and if so how, behavioural change can be sustained.3 December 2021
Finite- and large-sample inference for ranks using multinomial data with an application to ranking political parties Working PaperIt is common to rank different categories by means of preferences that are revealed through data on choices.18 November 2021
Price floors and externality correction Working PaperWe evaluate the impact of a price floor for alcohol introduced in Scotland in 2018.15 November 2021
Brexit and labour market inequalities: potential spatial and occupational impacts Working PaperWe examine the possible distributional impacts of new trade barriers associated with the new trade agreement governing EU and UK relations.15 November 2021
