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The Autumn Statement explained
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We analyse the Chancellor's 2023 Autumn Statement.
24 November 2023
The Autumn Statement 2023 explained in 90 seconds
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Paul Johnson responds to Jeremy Hunt's 2023 Autumn Statement.
22 November 2023
Cake or biscuit? The UK's byzantine VAT system explained
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This week, we dive into the oddities of the VAT system.
16 November 2023
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Education spending: an engine for levelling-up?
event 11 December 2023
The launch of the 2023 IFS Annual Report on Education Spending in England, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
Social mobility and wealth
conference 12 December 2023
At this in-person event, IFS researchers will share findings from ESRC-funded research on social mobility and its drivers.
Where next for the state pension?
event 13 December 2023
At this online event, IFS researchers will present findings from a major new report on the future of the state pension in the UK.
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Consumption and prices

Our work in this area looks at how consumers respond to price signals and other incentives to change their borrowing, saving and spending behaviour, as well as how different households' welfare is affected by inflation and changes in indirect taxes.

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Will public sector workers get a pay rise?

Podcast

With inflation squeezed living standards, will the government have to give public sector workers a pay rise?

21 September 2022

Transparency is key to maintaining trust in government. Let’s not cap it

Comment

Paul Johnson in the Times on the importance of transparency in government.

12 September 2022

Estimation of a heterogeneous demand function with Berkson errors

Journal article

We show the importance of Berkson errors for demand estimation with nonseparable unobserved heterogeneity.

8 September 2022

Response to the Energy Price Guarantee

Comment

The government has today announced an ‘Energy Price Guarantee’. This is our response.

8 September 2022

The challenges facing the new Prime Minister

Podcast

Paul speaks to Ben Zaranko and Xiaowei Xu to assess the challenges facing the new Prime Minister.

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

Cost of maintaining household support package rises by £14bn in light of new energy price cap

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Both Conservative leadership candidates have promised tax cuts on energy bills. How much would these help and what would they cost?

26 August 2022

The outlook for the public finances under the Bank of England’s August 2022 forecast

Report

This report sets out an illustrative scenario for how the current path of inflation and growth might affect government revenues and spending.

18 August 2022

Can we all eat cake? Political leaders should explain that is pure fantasy

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Paul Johnson in the Times on the dangers of 'cakeism'.

15 August 2022

The long squeeze: rising inflation and the current government support package

Comment

We look at the impact of inflation and the government's proposals to tackle it.

15 August 2022

The government’s debt interest bill in June hugely increased by high inflation and seasonal effects

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Today's data release confirmed very high government debt payments in June, driven by high inflation and usual seasonal effects.

21 July 2022

An initial response to the public sector pay announcement

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The government has announced pay rises for public sector workers covered by independent pay review bodies.

20 July 2022

What should public sector pay policy be trying to achieve?

Comment

What is the objective of public sector pay policy? What is it, and what should it be, trying to achieve?

18 July 2022

We didn’t see this coming because for 25 years we thought we had inflation licked

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'Pretty much everything we could have got wrong, we got wrong.' Paul Johnson on why economists failed to see inflation coming.

4 July 2022

Future of the welfare state

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This talk was given by Paul Johnson at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's Future of Britain conference.

1 July 2022

The decline of home-cooked food

Journal article

We show that observed behaviour can be rationalised by the fact that the shadow price of home-cooked food, which accounts for the fact that cooking takes time, has risen relative to the price of ready-to-eat food.

20 June 2022

Student living cost support cut to lowest level in seven years

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Due to inflation forecast errors alone, students from the poorest families will lose £100 per month in maintenance support.

15 June 2022

IFS response to government cost of living support package

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Initial analysis of the Chancellor's statement on the cost of living crisis.

26 May 2022

Reducing the expense of childcare won’t solve the cost-of-living crisis

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"There is much to do to get childcare policy right, but let’s not mix it up with sorting out the present cost-of-living crisis." Paul Johnson writes for The Times.

23 May 2022

How does spending change through retirement?

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At this event, IFS researchers presented the findings of new research on the spending patterns of current retirees. Following this, Carolyn Jones, Head of Pensions Policy and Strategy at the Money and Pensions Service, gave a response to the findings of the report.

19 May 2022

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