How could the Chancellor raise more tax? podcastWhat options does the Chancellor have for raising taxes in the October Budget?28 August 2024
Why are universities in financial trouble? podcastWhy are universities struggling, what happens if they go bust and what can government do to help? What other challenges do the HE and FE sectors face?21 August 2024
Can the new government fix the NHS? podcastWe look at the key challenges facing the NHS, and what the new government could do to tackle them.14 August 2024
CIOT/IFS debate: What should be in the business tax roadmap? event 4 September 2024 At this event, an expert panel will debate what should be on the new Labour government business tax roadmap.
Next steps for private pension saving for employees and the self-employed event 16 September 2024 At this in-person event in Westminster, IFS researchers will present new findings from the Pensions Review.
6th World Bank/IFS/ODI Public Finance Conference | Driving Progress: Public Finance and Structural Transformation conference 25 September 2024 We invite researchers from both academic and policy institutions to submit a paper or an extended abstract of two or more pages by April.
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.
Focal pricing and pass-through Working Paper I show that the adoption and extent of focal pricing practices in an industry in general do not lower average pass-through of input cost changes. 21 August 2024
Estimating intra-household sharing from time-use data Working Paper Estimating intra-household sharing is crucial to understanding overall inequality. However, expenditure data is almost always at the household level. 19 July 2024
Production function estimation using subjective expectations data Working Paper Implementing a range of production function estimators on UK data, we find our results are similar to or more credible than widely-used alternatives. 11 July 2024
The impact of labour demand shocks when occupational labour supplies are heterogeneous Working Paper We study the heterogeneous impact of subsequent demand shifts on wages and employment in Germany. 28 June 2024
Inference for rank-rank regressions Working Paper Slope coefficients in rank-rank regressions are popular measures of intergenerational mobility. 28 May 2024
Understanding Society: minimising selection biases in data collection using mobile apps Journal article We review the potential barriers to data collection using mobile apps and experimental evidence collected with the UK Household Longitudinal Study. 2 February 2024
Robust analysis of short panels Working Paper Examples of application to some static and dynamic binary, ordered and multiple discrete choice panel data models are presented. 8 January 2024
A coefficient of variation for ordered categorical data: Analyzing relative health inequality and ageing in the UK and relative human resource inequality and gender in Canada Working Paper The rise of ordinal data in empirical sciences calls for location and variation measurement instruments suitable for such data environments. 21 December 2023
Measuring wellbeing growth and convergence in multivariate ordered categorical worlds: Has there been any levelling up in the United Kingdom? Working Paper Whilst there is strong evidence of growth, the results indicate that there is little evidence of "levelling up" type growth in the United Kingdom. 21 December 2023
Adverse selection among early adopters and unraveling innovation Working Paper I provide an equilibrium analysis of 'selection markets,' where consumers vary in both their willingness to pay and the cost to the seller. 18 December 2023
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
Inference for rank-rank regressions Working Paper Slope coefficients in rank-rank regressions are popular measures of intergenerational mobility. 2 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
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
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
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
