In new research published today, data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing COVID-19 Substudy were used to examine the perceptions of people in their late 50s and over, in terms of the effect of the crisis on both their current income and wealth, and on their future retirement incomes.
9 June 2021
Xavier Jaravel, an IFS Research Associate based at the London School of Economics, has won Le Monde's prize for the best young economist.
7 June 2021
'The power of the Treasury needs constant challenge and scrutiny, but in the end, it needs to play its role in challenging and scrutinising the rest of government. It needs to be unpopular.' Paul Johnson in The Times on the Treasury's role in last week's decisions on education spending.
7 June 2021
We describe the association between recent changes in socioeconomic inequality and trends in mortality disparities for different age and sex groups at small-area level in England.
4 June 2021
4 June 2021
In this observation we look at the arguments to consider when assessing the merits of the large injection of education spending.
4 June 2021
2 June 2021
28 May 2021
28 May 2021
Recent IFS work shows that students from disadvantaged backgrounds see some of the largest financial benefits from going on to university. But these students are also less likely to attend university than their better-off peers who get exactly the same grades as them. And, even among students with the same grades attending the same HE programme, those from disadvantaged backgrounds still on average go on to earn less.
27 May 2021
While there is broad agreement in the UK on the importance of social mobility, current evidence suggests that social background is more strongly related to outcomes in the UK than in many other developed countries.
27 May 2021
25 May 2021
In this report, we provide a comprehensive overview of Ghana’s tax system. This is intended as a repository of key information for researchers, policymakers and the public, as well as highlighting aggregate patterns of note as a first step for identifying challenges and areas for reform.
25 May 2021
In his latest column for The Times, Paul Johnson looks at retirement saving.
24 May 2021
We examine the first nationwide policy in the United Kingdom obliging small employers to enroll employees automatically into a pension. Exploiting pseudorandom variation in its introduction, we find automatic enrollment increased pension participation by 44 percentage points, reaching 70 percent — still substantially lower than the 90 percent. rate among those working for the largest employers.
21 May 2021
20 May 2021
This briefing note describes the range and level of COVID-related spending on education in England.
20 May 2021
19 May 2021
13 May 2021
13 May 2021