Why we need to reform inheritance tax podcastWe discuss the issues with inheritance tax and how to reform it.6 December 2023
The Autumn Statement 2023 explained in 90 seconds explainerPaul Johnson responds to Jeremy Hunt's 2023 Autumn Statement. 22 November 2023
Cake or biscuit? The UK's byzantine VAT system explained podcastThis week, we dive into the oddities of the VAT system.16 November 2023
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.
Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy landing pageThe ESRC has funded a research centre at IFS since 1991, recognised as a global centre of excellence and now with UKRI Research Institute status.15 July 2022
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
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
Walk the talk: Measuring green preferences with social media data Working Paper We created a unique data set based on social media data by collecting all the tweets of 54,000 Swedish citizens between January and June 2019. 6 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
Identification analysis in models with unrestricted latent variables: Fixed effects and initial conditions Working Paper Examples of application to some static and dynamic binary, ordered and multiple discrete choice panel data models are presented. 11 October 2023
Identifying network ties from panel data: theory and an application to tax competition Working Paper We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between agents. 11 October 2023
Estimating intra-household sharing from time-use data Working Paper This report shows that it is possible to use time-use data to estimate resource sharing in households via linear regression. 8 September 2023
Robust estimation and inference in panels with interactive fixed effects Working Paper We consider estimation and inference for a regression coefficient in panels with interactive fixed effects (i.e., with a factor structure). 7 July 2023
Design of partial population experiments with an application to spillovers in tax compliance Working Paper We develop a framework to conduct experiments for estimating direct and spillover effects when units are grouped into mutually exclusive clusters. 24 April 2023
Heterogeneity of consumption responses to income shocks in the presence of nonlinear persistence Working Paper We use enhanced consumption data in the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics from 2005–2017 to explore the transmission of income shocks to consumption. 14 April 2023
Taking the biscuit: how Safari privacy policies affect online advertising Working Paper We analyse how much advertisers are willing to pay for third-party cookies and how tightening privacy policies affect market outcomes. 9 February 2023
Identifying network ties from panel data: theory and an application to tax competition Working Paper We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between agents. 18 January 2023
Identifying the effect of persuasion Working Paper This paper examines a commonly used measure of persuasion whose precise interpretation has been obscure in the literature. 14 December 2022
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
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
The impact of area level mental health interventions on outcomes for secondary school pupils: Evidence from the HeadStart programme in England Working Paper This paper provides the first robust evaluation of the impacts on school outcomes of HeadStart for area-level mental health interventions. 13 October 2022
IV Methods for Tobit Models Working Paper This paper studies models of processes generating censored outcomes with endogenous explanatory variables and instrumental variable restrictions. 3 October 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
Optimal random taxation and redistribution Working Paper We assess the usefulness of stochastic redistribution among a continuum of risk-averse agents with quasilinear utilities in labor. 7 September 2022
Design of two-stage experiments with an application to spillovers in tax compliance Working Paper We set up a framework to conduct experiments for estimating spillover effects when units are grouped into mutually exclusive clusters. 22 August 2022
