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 government’s debt interest bill in June hugely increased by high inflation and seasonal effects Comment Today's data release confirmed very high government debt payments in June, driven by high inflation and usual seasonal effects. 21 July 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
The share of children whose families could not afford essentials fell by a quarter in the six years running up to the pandemic, despite rising relative child poverty Press Release With prices of food and energy currently rising particularly fast, material deprivation among children may start to rise in response. 14 July 2022
Can white elephants kill? Unintended consequences of infrastructure development Working Paper I provide evidence of the severe social costs imposed by infrastructure projects that are being implemented in the context of sewerage in Peru. 12 July 2022
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2022 Report We look at how the distribution of household income changed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. 14 July 2022
110,000 workers missing from work as a result of long COVID at a cost of £1.5 billion a year in lost earnings Press Release Current levels of long COVID could be causing 110,000 workers to be missing from the labour market. 27 July 2022
Updated analysis of the effects of revaluing & reforming council tax across Welsh local authorities Report Using property prices from Q1 2022, this note partially updates analysis of council tax reform in Wales originally published in 2020. 8 July 2022
Long COVID and the labour market Report We assess long COVID's impact has on labour market outcomes including hours, earnings and employment. 27 July 2022
Big rise in claims means disability benefits bill 70% higher than expected – and claimants on average waiting five months to receive Press Release The number of people on disability benefits has been steadily rising – from 2% of the working-age population in the early 1990s to 6% in 2020-21. 6 July 2022
Intergenerational income persistence: evidence for the UK Working Paper We spotlight some newer directions in intergenerational mobility research within economics driven by changes in some key trends in the recent decades 29 June 2022
In-kind transfers as insurance Working Paper Using calorie shortfalls as a marginal utility proxy, we find that in-kind transfers are preferred for low-income Indian households. 29 June 2022
Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK Working Paper We examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time in the UK. 6 July 2022
