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
The Schools Bill: what's changing and why? podcast<p class="p1">The bill aims to improve education and social care for children. But will it work?</p>11 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>
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.
Which places have the highest standard of living? Comment Measuring living standards using average household spending gives a starkly different picture of regional inequalities than using average income. 11 April 2025
Small area consumption estimates for local authorities in Great Britain Working Paper In this paper, we estimate average equivalised consumption measures across local authority districts in Great Britain. 11 April 2025
New data suggest dramatic decline in living standards, but it may just be the quality of the data that has declined Comment The latest official statistics on household incomes show dramatic falls, but there is reason to doubt their reliability. 27 March 2025
Evaluation for impact Presentation Associate Director Christine Farquharson presented on the importance on evaluation at the Children & Young People Now's conference. 25 March 2025
£2 trillion poorer than previously thought? Assessing changes to household wealth statistics Report A recent change in ONS methodology reduced measured household wealth by over £2 trillion. But is the new approach an improvement? 21 March 2025
The role of changing health in rising health-related benefit claims Report Is the working-age population less healthy since the pandemic? What role is changing health playing in rising health-related benefit claims? 12 March 2025
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2024 Report How do rising mortgage rates and differential inflation affect incomes and poverty? How have incomes and poverty changed for pensioners? 25 July 2024
Inference for rank-rank regressions Working Paper Slope coefficients in rank-rank regressions are popular measures of intergenerational mobility. 28 May 2024
Sample composition and representativeness on Understanding Society Journal article Fiscal Studies 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 World Development 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 The Review of Economics and Statistics We show the importance of Berkson errors for demand estimation with nonseparable unobserved heterogeneity. 8 September 2022