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.
Targeting men, women or both to reduce child marriage Working Paper We conduct a cluster-randomized control trial of an edutainment intervention aimed at delaying marriage of adolescent children in rural Pakistan. 28 May 2024
If you can’t see it, you can’t be it: role models influence female junior doctors’ choice of medical specialty Comment Working alongside a greater share of senior women specialists during an early-career placement influences junior women’s own specialty choice. 24 April 2024
A senior doctor like me: Gender match and occupational choice Working Paper In this paper, we estimate how the gender of supervisors early in one’s career affects subsequent choice of finely-defined occupations. 24 April 2024
Imagine your life at 25: Gender conformity and later-life outcomes Working Paper We analyse thousands of essays written by 11-year-old girls in 1969 to assess conformity with gender norms and its implications for future outcomes. 24 April 2024
Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages Working Paper We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US. 15 April 2024
There and back again: women’s marginal commuting costs Working Paper We estimate female and male workers’ marginal willingness to pay to reduce commuting distance in Germany. 2 April 2024
Household responses to trade shocks Working Paper We study the responses of both individuals and their partners to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s. 26 March 2024
Recent trends in public sector pay Report How has public sector pay changed in recent years? Which type of workers have done better and which have done worse? 26 March 2024
The consequences of miscarriage on parental investments Working Paper We exploit the random nature of single, early miscarriages to examine the impact of pregnancy loss on parental investment and family outcomes. 22 March 2024
The menopause "penalty" Working Paper We estimate the effect of menopause diagnosis on employment and earnings, reliance on social safety net programs, and demand for medical care. 18 March 2024
Ethnic diversity of NHS doctors Report How does the ethnicity mix of NHS doctors compare with wider populations? How does it differ by seniority, gender, specialty and country of training? 22 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 Paper The rise of ordinal data in empirical sciences calls for location and variation measurement instruments suitable for such data environments. 21 December 2023
Distributional analysis of Ghana’s tax system Report This report analyses the distributional impacts of Ghana’s direct and indirect tax systems using the GHATAX microsimulation model. 18 December 2023
Gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean Report This chapter examines gender inequality focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated: education and work. 12 December 2023
Understanding retirement in the UK Report We comprehensively examine the changing patterns of retirement in the UK for different groups in society. 1 November 2023
Women in surgery: slow progress for mothers Comment Survey evidence published recently showed staggering levels of sexual harassment (and worse) in surgery. 31 October 2023
Intergenerational transfers, insurance and the transmission of inequality Presentation This two day academic conference was held in London on 5th and 6th October 2023, and featured 13 presentations across a range of topics. 5 October 2023
Still a man’s world? Gender inequalities, parenthood and the workplace Podcast We ask why the gender pay gap opens up, whether things have improved in recent years, and talk about one key factor affecting women’s pay - kids. 23 August 2023
Fiscal policy and gender income inequality: the role of taxes and social spending Report Persistent inequalities between women and men in income, unpaid work, paid work and other dimensions disadvantage women. 23 June 2023
Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages Working Paper We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US. 13 April 2023