Election Special: Your questions answered podcastIn the final run up to the election, we answer your questions about everything from borrowing to AI to the part that luck plays in the economy. 27 June 2024
Election Special: The Labour manifesto explained podcastWe discuss the Labour manifesto launched on Thursday and give our reaction to the policies and pledges within it.14 June 2024
Election Special: The Conservative manifesto explained podcastWe discuss the Conservative manifesto launched on Tuesday and give our reaction to the policies and pledges within it.12 June 2024
General Election 2024: IFS manifesto analysis event 24 June 2024 IFS researchers and Director Paul Johnson will deliver their analysis of the parties' manifestos at a live-streamed press briefing.
Inaugural IFS postdoc workshop workshop 4 July 2024 This academic workshop on applied public and labour economics will feature presentations by alumni of the IFS postdoc scheme.
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2024 event 25 July 2024 This online event will present the key findings from our latest flagship annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK.
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.
The number of new disability benefit claimants has doubled in a year Report The number of working-age people newly awarded disability benefits doubled between July 2021 and July 2022. This report investigates that increase. 7 December 2022
Savings after retirement Working Paper We discuss the empirical strategies used to differentiate the motivations behind the 'retirement savings puzzle.' 5 December 2022
Shaping gender-stereotypical beliefs: the role of parents and peers Working Paper We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to explore the influence of parents and peers in shaping adolescents’ beliefs on gender-stereotypical fields. 2 December 2022
Scotland’s relative public finance position is set to improve significantly, but only temporarily Comment Scotland’s underlying deficit is falling fast as the UK’s is rising due to oil and gas revenues – but this isn’t forecast to last. 1 December 2022
Cost-of-living crisis to hit students harder than expected Comment Students will be hit harder by the cost-of-living crisis than previously thought. Poorest students will be more than £1,000 worse off than in 2020–21. 30 November 2022
Parental beliefs, perceived health risks, and time investment in children: evidence from COVID-19 Working Paper What role did parental beliefs about risks and returns play for the allocation of time with children during the pandemic? 25 November 2022
Father of the bride, or steel magnolias? Targeting men, women or both to reduce child marriage Working Paper We conduct a cluster-randomized control trial of an edutainment intervention aimed at delaying marriage of adolescent children in rural Pakistan. 25 November 2022
Firm heterogeneity and the impact of payroll taxes Working Paper We examine the heterogeneous impact of a large payroll tax cut for older workers in Hungary. 24 November 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
VOG: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Impact of Air Pollution on Student Learning Outcomes Working Paper This study pairs variation stemming from volcanic eruptions with student test scores to estimate the impact of particulates on student performance. 22 November 2022
The NHS needs to ramp up treatment volumes if waiting lists are to start falling any time soon Comment NHS waiting lists have so far increased broadly in line with our past projections. We examine what this might mean for waiting lists in 2023. 15 November 2022
Number of people treated from NHS waiting lists Data Item Number of people treated from NHS waiting lists 15 November 2022
