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Why we need to reform inheritance tax
podcast
We discuss the issues with inheritance tax and how to reform it.
6 December 2023
The Autumn Statement 2023 explained in 90 seconds
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Paul Johnson responds to Jeremy Hunt's 2023 Autumn Statement.
22 November 2023
Cake or biscuit? The UK's byzantine VAT system explained
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This week, we dive into the oddities of the VAT system.
16 November 2023
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Education spending: an engine for levelling-up?
event 11 December 2023
The launch of the 2023 IFS Annual Report on Education Spending in England, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
Social mobility and wealth
conference 12 December 2023
At this in-person event, IFS researchers will share findings from ESRC-funded research on social mobility and its drivers.
Where next for the state pension?
event 13 December 2023
At this online event, IFS researchers will present findings from a major new report on the future of the state pension in the UK.
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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

Linear panel regressions with two-way unobserved heterogeneity

Working Paper

This paper studies linear panel regression models in which the unobserved error term is an unknown smooth function of two-way unobserved fixed effects.

4 November 2021

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