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.
Are small farms really more productive than large farms? Working Paper This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size & productivity in the context of small-scale farming. 14 October 2021
School selectivity, peers, and mental health Working Paper We investigate the consequences of a selective school environment on students’ mental health using a regression discontinuity analysis. 8 October 2021
Earnings dynamics and firm-level shocks Working Paper We use matched employer-employee data from Sweden to study the role of the firm in affecting the stochastic properties of wages. 7 October 2021
The growing gap between state school and private school spending Comment We find that the gap between private school fees and state school spending per pupil has more than doubled over the last decade. 8 October 2021
Feed the children Working Paper We conduct an experiment to understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in Nairobi. 5 October 2021
Stable marriage, household consumption and unobserved match quality Working Paper We present a methodology for the structural empirical analysis of household consumption and time use behaviour under marital stability. 5 October 2021
Most people care about inequalities – but there is little agreement about what, if anything, government should do about them Press Release Most people say, when prompted, that they are concerned about inequalities. But the degree of concern is highly variable. 23 September 2021
Optimal sin taxation and market power Working Paper This paper studies the design of sin taxes when firms exercise market power. 21 September 2021
No jobseeker’s paradise: vacancies above pre-pandemic levels, but only in low-paid occupations, and competition for jobs is still higher than pre-pandemic for most Press Release While stories about rising vacancies and labour shortages in certain areas are real, we should not be misled into thinking that worker power is back. 21 September 2021
Job opportunities during the pandemic Report We address questions around vacancies and labour shortages by bringing together fine-grained data on the demand and supply sides of the labour market 21 September 2021
New IFS student finance calculator shows: no easy choices for student finance reform Comment We have constructed a new student finance calculator, based on our detailed analysis of graduate earnings and the student finance system, which allows users to look at the effects of changing any parameter of the system. 20 September 2021
