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.
Effective tax rates and firm size Comment There is a general perception that firms pay less tax than the statutory tax rates would suggest 14 March 2023
Community matters: Heterogeneous impacts of a sanitation intervention Journal article World Development We study the effectiveness of a widely adopted participatory community-level information intervention aimed at improving sanitation. 8 February 2023
Who benefits from free health insurance: evidence from Mexico Working Paper We present a comprehensive evaluation of the health impacts of the introduction & expansion of the Seguro Popular health insurance program in Mexico. 6 February 2023
Effective Tax Rates and Firm Size Working Paper This paper provides novel evidence on the relationship between firm size and effective corporate tax rates. 1 February 2023
Sustaining behavioural change: Evidence from rural Pakistan Comment Where community interventions lead to behaviour change, continued interactions are needed to help people maintain healthy behaviours. 27 January 2023
Labeled loans and human capital investments Working Paper We provide rigorous evidence of the impacts of labelled microcredit on household sanitation investment and borrowing behaviour. 24 January 2023
To invest or not to invest in sanitation: the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power Working Paper We study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. 24 January 2023
Labeled loans and human capital investments Journal article We provide novel evidence that labeled microcredit is effective in influencing household borrowing and investment decisions. 14 January 2023
Parental investments and intra-household inequality in child human capital: evidence from a survey experiment Working Paper This paper studies the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain intra-household inequality and its determinants. 7 December 2022
Father of the bride, or steel magnolias? 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. 25 November 2022
Revealed beliefs and the marriage market return to education Working Paper This paper develops a new methodology to analyse how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters’ schooling and marriage. 23 November 2022
Inflation, incomes and inequality – how can lower-income countries use fiscal policy to the greatest effect? Comment We outline six ideas to help shield the vulnerable from rising prices while heading towards more sustainable and inclusive economies. 21 November 2022
Firms as tax collectors Working Paper We show that delegating tax collection to large firms can help build tax capacity in weak-enforcement settings. 31 October 2022
Social incentives, delivery agents and the effectiveness of development interventions Journal article We study the use of the local delivery model for development interventions in the context of a standard agricultural extension intervention in Uganda. 6 October 2022
Fiscal policy and income inequality: the role of taxes and social spending Report This report surveys the available evidence on the combined impact of taxes and social spending on within-country income inequality and poverty. 30 September 2022
Gender norms, violence and adolescent girls’ trajectories: evidence from a field experiment in India Working Paper We compare the effectiveness of targeting only adolescent girls with an approach that engages with enforcers of gender norms in the wider community. 26 September 2022
Import tax expenditure report: FY 2018/19 – 2020/21 Report This report uses shipment-level microdata from the Ethiopian Customs Commission to estimate import tax expenditures for 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21. 1 September 2022
When nature calls back: Sustaining behavioral change in rural Pakistan Journal article We implement a randomized controlled trial and a qualitative study to assess whether, and if so how, behavioral change can be sustained. 16 July 2022
Can white elephants kill? Unintended consequences of infrastructure development Working Paper I provide evidence of the severe social costs imposed by infrastructure projects that are being implemented in the context of sewerage in Peru. 12 July 2022
In-kind transfers as insurance Working Paper Using calorie shortfalls as a marginal utility proxy, we find that in-kind transfers are preferred for low-income Indian households. 29 June 2022
