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How to reduce child poverty: compare the policy options
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Use these charts to compare policies for reducing child poverty and to examine how child poverty rates have changed over time across different groups.
3 October 2024
How can government reduce child poverty?
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We're exploring why there's been an increase in child poverty since 2010 and options the government has to reduce this.
3 October 2024
Are people saving enough into their pensions?
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Automatic enrolment has been successful in getting more people into workplace pensions, but are they saving enough?
20 September 2024
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At this online event we will offer an opportunity to meet current IFS staff, and ask questions about life at IFS and our recruitment process.
What did Sure Start do for youth offending, children's social care, and school behaviour?
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In this online event we will present findings on the effect of Sure Start on a range of outcomes throughout childhood and adolescence.
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Poverty, inequality and social mobility

Our research looks at inequalities in living standards, education, health and other outcomes. We study the role of labour market outcomes, taxes and benefits, and structural forces like globalisation in shaping trends in poverty, inequality and social mobility.

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There are good reasons to reverse the two-child limit

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"The two-child limit has been pretty much laser-focused on increasing the measured rate of child poverty." Paul Johnson writes for the Times.

22 July 2024

What is Labour's economic strategy?

Podcast

In the King's Speech last week, Labour set out 40 new bills - what can we learn about their economic strategy?

22 July 2024

Estimating intra-household sharing from time-use data

Working Paper

Estimating intra-household sharing is crucial to understanding overall inequality. However, expenditure data is almost always at the household level.

19 July 2024

How have pensioner incomes and poverty changed in recent years?

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This report examines the key trends in pensioner incomes and poverty over the past two decades.

19 July 2024

Dimensions of Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review

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When people worry about the state of the world, or the state of the UK, they often mention the word ‘inequality’.

17 July 2024

Canadian inequality over the last 40 years: common and contrary variations on universal themes

Journal article

In this paper, we describe the trends in inequality in Canada and the combination of market and policy forces that drove them.

9 July 2024

Changing patterns of inequality in Norway: the roles of gender, education, immigration and unions

Journal article

We assess the evolution of inequality over time in Norway and the underlying factors which determine such changes.

9 July 2024

Examining inequalities: from labour markets to social outcomes in Finland

Journal article

We discuss the drivers of inequality in Finland, such as wages, earnings, employment and education and also social outcomes such as partner-finding.

9 July 2024

Family and career: an analysis across Europe and North America

Journal article

Across 17 countries in Europe and North America, we compare the career trajectories of families and individuals across cohorts.

9 July 2024

Intrahousehold welfare: Theory and application to Japanese data

Working Paper

We construct a money metric measure of welfare that accounts for public goods (by using personalized prices) and the allocation of time.

9 July 2024

Preschool quality and child development

Journal article Journal of Political Economy

Globally, preschool enrollment has surged, but its quality is often poor. We evaluate strategies to improve quality of public preschools in Colombia.

8 July 2024

Levelling up: it’s time to step up

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The gap in employment rates between the best- and worst-performing areas is at its widest since 2005, says Christine Farquharson.

30 June 2024

What is ‘levelling up’ and how much progress has been made?

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IFS Associate Director Christine Farquharson explains.

29 June 2024

Changing labour market and income inequalities in Europe and North America: a parallel project to the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities in the 21st century

Journal article Fiscal Studies

The papers in this two-part special issue seek to provide the bases for consistent comparisons across 17 North American and European countries.

28 June 2024

Components of the evolution of income inequality in Sweden, 1990–2021

Journal article

This paper documents how the inequality of household equivalent disposable income has changed in Sweden over the period 1990–2021.

28 June 2024

Fiscal Studies: Volume 45, Issue 2

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Fiscal Studies: Volume 45, Issue 2

28 June 2024

Income inequality in Ireland, 1987–2019

Journal article

This paper highlights an aspect of the Irish experience that does stand out as quite remarkable.

28 June 2024

Income inequality in the United States, 1975–2022

Journal article

We examine trends in household disposable income inequality and potential mechanisms shaping inequality.

28 June 2024

Inequality in Denmark, 1987–2021

Journal article

We investigate the progression of income inequality in Denmark over the years 1987–2021.

28 June 2024

Labour market and income inequalities in the United Kingdom, 1968–2021

Journal article

This paper examines trends in working-age labour market and disposable income inequalities in the United Kingdom from 1968 to 2021.

28 June 2024

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