How to reduce child poverty: compare the policy options calculator<p>Use these charts to compare policies for reducing child poverty and to examine how child poverty rates have changed over time across different groups.</p>3 October 2024
How can government reduce child poverty? podcast<p>We're exploring why there's been an increase in child poverty since 2010 and options the government has to reduce this.</p>3 October 2024
Are people saving enough into their pensions? podcastAutomatic enrolment has been successful in getting more people into workplace pensions, but are they saving enough?20 September 2024
IFS recruitment event 2024 event 14 October 2024 At this online event we will offer an opportunity to meet current IFS staff, and ask questions about life at IFS and our recruitment process.
What did Sure Start do for youth offending, children's social care, and school behaviour? event 23 October 2024 <p>In this online event we will present findings on the effect of Sure Start on a range of outcomes throughout childhood and adolescence.</p>
IFS Zooms In Live: How to make your first Budget a success event 23 October 2024 Join us for a special in-person recording of an episode of the IFS podcast the week ahead of Rachel Reeves' all-important first Budget.
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.
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 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 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
