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.
Gender norms, violence and adolescent girls’ trajectories: evidence from a field experiment in India Working Paper We compare the effectiveness of targeting only adolescent girls with an approach that engages with enforcers of gender norms in the wider community. 26 September 2022
Market power and wage inequality Working Paper We propose a theory of how market power affects wage inequality. 26 September 2022
What drives wage stagnation: monopsony or monopoly? Working Paper Wages for the vast majority of workers have stagnated since the 1980s while productivity has grown. 26 September 2022
Prenatal sugar consumption and late-life human capital and health: analyses based on postwar rationing and polygenic scores Working Paper We exploit the abolishment and subsequent reintroduction of rationing sweet confectionery in the UK and consider the effects on late-life health. 26 September 2022
Reversing NICs and corporation tax rises, as economic growth stalls, would leave debt on an unsustainable path Press Release The Energy Price Guarantee was announced to Parliament without any government estimates of what its cost might be. 21 September 2022
Reversing NICs and corporation tax rises would leave debt on an unsustainable path Report In the absence of official scrutiny from the OBR, we set out how much red ink might be added to the fiscal forecasts. 21 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
Are trade wars class wars? The importance of trade-induced horizontal inequality Working Paper This paper demonstrates conceptually and empirically the importance of “trade-induced horizontal inequality." 6 September 2022
Who is most affected by rising mortgage interest rates? Comment What are the implications of rising interest rates for household budgets and who could see mortgage repayments reach a high share of their income? 2 September 2022
How could a falling population affect the Scottish Government’s funding? Comment A falling population could be a boon for the Scottish Government’s finances within the UK. 2 September 2022
Overconfidence and technology adoption in health care Working Paper We study the determinants of adoption in the case of implantable cardiac defibrillators, for which we document large differences across hospitals. 31 August 2022
