The £600 billion problem awaiting the next government podcastWe speak to David Gauke and Giles Wilkes, two experts who have been at the heart of the spending review process.25 April 2024
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Should we worry about government debt? podcastDavid Miles joins us to discuss high government debt and its impact on the economy. 11 April 2024
IFS Annual Lecture - Innovation and productivity policies: a budgetary perspective event 15 May 2024 Professor Heidi Williams (Dartmouth College) will deliver the 2024 IFS Annual Lecture on innovation and productivity policies.
Higher Education Access and Funding: challenges and policy options conference 14 May 2024 This one-day academic conference will look at access to and funding of Higher Education systems.
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.
Sample composition and representativeness on Understanding Society Journal article In this paper, we provide an overview of the sample design of Understanding Society and the consequent nature of design weights. 2 February 2024
Social proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India Working Paper We study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health behaviour campaigns. 7 December 2023
Is there really an NHS productivity crisis? Comment It is difficult to measure NHS productivity. But the available evidence strongly suggests that the NHS is less productive now than pre-pandemic. 17 November 2023
Powerful t-tests in the presence of nonclassical measurement error Working Paper This paper proposes an alternative to the t-test hypothesis that a coefficient in linear regression is equal to zero when a regressor is mismeasured. 2 November 2023
Inference for rank-rank regressions Working Paper Slope coefficients in rank-rank regressions are popular measures of intergenerational mobility. 2 November 2023
Targeting taxes on local externalities Working Paper We consider optimal anonymous consumption taxes in situations where the magnitude of an externality varies with individuals who cause it. 14 August 2023
Three key takeaways from our TaxDev Tax Expenditures Workshop Comment Tax expenditure reporting is vital but challenging – this briefing covers three key takeaways from a recent workshop on the topic. 17 March 2023
Data on private pension saving in UK surveys Report This report documents the quality of private pension saving data collected in UK household surveys. 8 March 2023
Community matters: Heterogeneous impacts of a sanitation intervention Journal article We study the effectiveness of a widely adopted participatory community-level information intervention aimed at improving sanitation. 8 February 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
Moment conditions for dynamic panel logit models with fixed effects Working Paper This paper investigates the construction of moment conditions in discrete choice panel data with individual specific fixed effects. 1 December 2022
Estimation of a heterogeneous demand function with Berkson errors Journal article We show the importance of Berkson errors for demand estimation with nonseparable unobserved heterogeneity. 8 September 2022
UK Shared Prosperity Fund allocations for Welsh councils are flawed, costing some areas millions Comment A failure to properly account for population in Welsh councils’ Shared Prosperity Fund allocations is costing larger councils millions of pounds. 18 July 2022
More powerful cluster randomized control trials Working Paper This paper describes methods to optimally choose the number of treatment and control clusters and the number of units within. 16 June 2022
Social proximity and misinformation: experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India Working Paper We study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health behaviour campaigns. 8 June 2022
Measuring top income shares in the UK Working Paper This paper examines measurement error in the share of income going to the top 1% (and other subgroups) that comes from estimation of the denominator. 14 January 2022
Rationalizability, cost-rationalizability, and Afriat’s efficiency index Working Paper This note explains the equivalence between approximate rationalizability and approximate cost-rationalizability within the context of consumer demand. 11 January 2022
Inference on a distribution from noisy draws Working Paper We consider a situation where the distribution of a random variable is being estimated by the empirical distribution of noisy measurements of that variable. 7 December 2021
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 3 December 2021
Finite- and large-sample inference for ranks using multinomial data with an application to ranking political parties Working Paper It is common to rank different categories by means of preferences that are revealed through data on choices. 18 November 2021
