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 Forecast 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 Forecast.</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.
How can people be better helped to draw on their pension wealth in retirement? Event 1 April 2025 at 10:00 via YouTube and Slido This online event will present new analysis of the way in which defined contribution pension wealth is currently being accessed.
Spring Forecast 2025: IFS analysis Event 27 March 2025 at 10:30 At this online event IFS researchers will present their initial analysis of the Chancellor's Spring Forecast.
How can policy boost productivity growth? Conference 25 March 2025 at 09:30 Westminster At this policy conference, four panels of experts will give their perspectives and recommendations on four key areas of the UK’s productivity problem.
Two-child limit mitigation in Scotland would help larger poor families but policy design could harm work incentives Comment Mitigating the two-child limit policy would be an effective way to reduce child poverty, but designing an effective policy is not straightforward. 14 March 2025
Karen Codazzi Pereira Karen Codazzi Pereira is a PhD candidate in Public Administration at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) in Brazil.March 2025 to June 2025
Various indicators point to a deterioration in population mental health – likely contributing to rising disability benefit caseloads Press Release Mental health has worsened since the pandemic. This is consistent with rising disability benefit claims for mental health. 12 March 2025
The role of changing health in rising health-related benefit claims Report Is the working-age population less healthy since the pandemic? What role is changing health playing in rising health-related benefit claims? 12 March 2025
The Schools Bill: what's changing and why? Podcast The bill aims to improve education and social care for children. But will it work? 11 March 2025
Rethinking the Education Maintenance Allowance: Lessons from a long-term analysis Comment This evidence should prompt us to look beyond simple financial incentives for classroom attendance. 10 March 2025
A look ahead to the Spring Forecast Event 6 March 2025 at 13:00 At this online event IFS researchers discussed what has changed since the Autumn, and what this means for the Chancellor's Spring Forecast.
Spring Forecast shaping up to be more consequential than first billed Press Release One key question is whether those forecasts put the Chancellor on track to miss her fiscal rules. This is by no means guaranteed. 6 March 2025
A look ahead to the 2025 Spring Forecast Comment What are the Chancellor’s options if – and it is very much an if – the upcoming Spring Forecast puts her on track to miss her fiscal targets? 6 March 2025
Three tests for childcare policy Presentation Christine Farquharson's presentation at the Nursery World Business Summit 2025, at America Square Conference Centre, London. 5 March 2025
Piecemeal cuts won’t cover defence spending rises, so what’s the plan? Comment The government’s decision to boost military funding out of international aid felt panicked. But this a watershed moment that needs a proper strategy. 3 March 2025
Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR) supplement launches in Oxford Open Economics Announcement The supplement contains a set of 27 papers and an editorial summary on five key themes of inequality, from 74 authors from wide range of disciplines. 3 March 2025
Family values: inheritance, inequality and social mobility Podcast Wealth concentration among baby boomers and stagnant earnings are driving the rise of the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’, affecting social mobility. 3 March 2025
Why do couples and singles save during retirement? Household heterogeneity and its aggregate implications Journal article Journal of Political Economy We find that most households save more for medical expenses than for bequests but that richer households and couples save more for bequests. 1 March 2025
Did the Education Maintenance Allowance improve outcomes? Event 26 February 2025 at 11:00 via Slido and YouTube At this online event IFS researchers presented findings on the effect of the rollout of the Education Maintenance Allowance in England.
The Education Maintenance Allowance did not improve attainment or earnings for disadvantaged young people in England Press Release The Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) failed to achieve its ultimate aims of improving educational attainment and labour market outcomes. 26 February 2025
The short- and long-run effects of the Education Maintenance Allowance Report This report studies the long-run effect of the Education Maintenance Allowance on educational attainment, earnings and crime. 26 February 2025
