Why is the government reforming health-related benefits? podcast<p>We discuss the government's welfare reforms aimed at helping sick and disabled people into work, and what the changes mean for health-related benefits</p>14 May 2025
What's the future of corporation tax? podcast<p><span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">Corporation tax was introduced 60 years ago. Despite many predictions of its decline, it is now forecast to raise record amounts. </span></p>10 April 2025
Spring Statement 2025: IFS Zooms In podcast<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(13, 13, 13);counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;cursor:text;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"> What were the decisions and trade-offs made by Chancellor Reeves?</p>27 March 2025
IFS Annual Lecture: Trade Wars and the Future of Globalisation conference 20 May 2025 <p>Professor Meredith Crowley will deliver the 2025 <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;">IFS Annual Lecture. </span></p>
From Sure Start to Family Hubs: how can evidence best inform policymaking for joined up family support in the early years? conference 22 May 2025 <p>This event will explore the evidence and policy landscape around early years family support. It will also mark the launch of a new report from IFS.</p>
A look ahead to the 2025 Spending Review event 2 June 2025 <p><span data-teams="true">At this online event, researchers will present what the key choices will be at the Spending Review.</span></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.
Call for papers: Thrive scientific conference Conference 24 June 2025 at 09:00 Submissions are open until 16th February for the Thrive scientific conference: Scaling early childhood development programmes and policies in LMIC.
Call for papers: IFS-ADBI-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMICs 2025 Conference 16 May 2025 at 09:00 London Submissions are open until 15th February for the IFS-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMIC 2025
The Effect of Classroom Rank on Learning throughout Elementary School: Experimental Evidence from Ecuador Journal article Journal of Labor Economics We study the impact of classroom rank on children’s learning using a unique experiment from Ecuador. 7 May 2025
Subjective expectations and demand for contraception Working Paper We collect data on the subjective beliefs of married, adult women not wanting a pregnancy and estimate a structural model of contraceptive choices. 9 April 2025
Enlisting consumers in tax enforcement: a policy review Comment This paper examines the rise of consumer incentives in tax enforcement and the conditions under which they can enhance compliance and raise revenue. 31 March 2025
A review of Ghana's value-added tax (VAT) system Report The report undertakes a review of the VAT system in Ghana with a view to making recommendations for future policy action. 11 February 2025
How Peru transformed natural resource wealth into local economic development Comment This blog was originally published on voxdev.org on 4 February 2025 here. Reprinted with kind permission from VoxDev. 4 February 2025
Survey of the Ghanaian Tax System Report This edition of the Survey of Ghana’s Tax System provides a comprehensive overview of the tax system as of the start of 2024. 18 November 2024
Resource windfalls, public expenditures and local economies Working Paper We show that the redistribution of natural resource tax revenues to non-extractive municipalities stimulates economic activity in local economies. 18 November 2024
Reform or replace? Three country perspectives on the use of tax incentives for structural transformation Comment This blog was originally published on odi.org on 23 October 2024 here, and is reproduced with kind permission. 23 October 2024
The effect of center-based early education on disadvantaged children’s developmental trajectories: experimental evidence from Colombia Working Paper We study the impacts of high-quality, center-based early childhood education on low income children in Colombia, tracking participants over five years 4 October 2024
Seclusion and women's time: Descriptive evidence from India Working Paper We use rich time-use data on where, and how, individuals spend their time to explore women’s seclusion in India. 17 September 2024
Gendered fiscal incidence analysis and tax-benefit microsimulation models: Overview, opportunities, and caveats Presentation IFS Research Fellow, Laura Abramovsky, delivered the presentation jointly with Pia Rattenhuber, a Research Fellow from UNU-WIDER. 10 September 2024
Evaluating pricing health insurance in lower-income countries: A field experiment in India Working Paper We conducted a large-scale, 4-year trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India’s first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY. 29 July 2024
Preschool quality and child development Journal article Journal of Political Economy Globally, preschool enrollment has surged, but its quality is often poor. We evaluate strategies to improve quality of public preschools in Colombia. 8 July 2024
The financial inclusion agenda: Examining the role of conventional banks in deepening access to formal credit Journal article Economic Systems Using a unique district-level panel dataset, we investigate the effect of banking system penetration on financial inclusion in Ghana. 4 June 2024
Religious proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India Journal article Journal of Health Economics We investigate how religion concordance influences the effectiveness of preventive health campaigns. 1 June 2024
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
The unintended consequences of infrastructure development Journal article The Review of Economics and Statistics Focusing on the period from 2005 to 2015 in Peru, I investigate the social costs imposed by poor implementation of public infrastructure. 17 May 2024
Wealth-related taxes in low- and middle-income countries Presentation IFS Research Fellow, Laura Abramovsky, delivered the presentation at an online meeting of officials from the BMZ and GIZ. 17 May 2024
