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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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IFS recruitment event 2024
event 14 October 2024
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?
event 23 October 2024
In this online event we will present findings on the effect of Sure Start on a range of outcomes throughout childhood and adolescence.
IFS Zooms In Live: How to make your first Budget a success
event 23 October 2024
Join us for a special in-person recording of an episode of the IFS podcast the week ahead of Rachel Reeves' all-important first Budget.
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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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Election Special: Has 'levelling up' worked?

Podcast

We discuss 'levelling up' and local government and see how much progress has been made. We also analyse the SNP and Plaid Cymru manifestos.

21 June 2024

How do the last five years measure up on levelling up?

Report

How well – or badly – has the UK fared on the 12 levelling up missions? We examine early progress and the scale of the challenge ahead.

19 June 2024

The two-child limit: poverty, incentives and cost

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What impact has the ‘two-child limit’ in universal credit had, and what policy choices does the next government face?

17 June 2024

Universal credit: incomes, incentives and the remaining roll-out

Report

What has been the impact of universal credit on incomes and work incentives? What challenges remain for the next government?

11 June 2024

The distributional impact of tax and benefit reforms since 2010

Report

How have tax and benefit reforms affected household incomes? Who has lost more, poorer or richer households?

8 June 2024

Making mortgage guarantees permanent will help some first-time buyers, but only if they can afford a bigger mortgage

Comment

Today, Labour have pledged to make the government’s mortgage guarantee scheme permanent if they win power. We discuss the impact of such a scheme.

6 June 2024

Intergenerational mobility in socio-emotional skills

Working Paper

This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of socio-emotional skills during childhood, using the 1970 British Cohort Study in the UK.

5 June 2024

The intergenerational elasticity of earnings: Exploring the mechanisms

Working Paper

We use data covering a single cohort’s ﬁrst 55 years of life to explain the differences in the intergenerational elasticity of earnings.

3 June 2024

Seven key facts about UK living standards

Report

What has happened to average incomes, inequality, poverty, jobs and pay since 2009 and since 2019? How does the UK compare internationally?

31 May 2024

Homeownership for young adults has recovered to its 2010 level

Comment

What has happened to homeownership since 2010 and how do the trends differ by age and income? We consider the latest data.

29 May 2024

Imagine your life at 25: Gender conformity and later-life outcomes

Working Paper

We analyse thousands of essays written by 11-year-old girls in 1969 to assess conformity with gender norms and its implications for future outcomes.

24 April 2024

Police infrastructure, police performance, and crime: Evidence from austerity cuts

Working Paper

Focusing on a wave of austerity cuts, I show that police station closure increased violent crimes in census blocks near the defunct stations.

24 April 2024

Interpreting cohort profiles of lifecycle earnings volatility

Working Paper

We present new estimates of earnings volatility over time and the lifecycle for men and women by race and human capital.

15 April 2024

Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages

Working Paper

We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US.

15 April 2024

Sure Start achieved its aims, then we threw it away

Comment

"We know that poor children grow up with poor life chances. We know how to ameliorate that. The choice is ours." Paul Johnson writes for the Times.

15 April 2024

The life-cycle dynamics of wealth mobility

Working Paper

In this paper, we use 25 years of tax records for the Norwegian population and find considerable wealth mobility over the life cycle.

10 April 2024

Living standards since the last election

Report

New income statistics suggest this parliament is on course to be the worst for living standards on record.

21 March 2024

Major challenges for education in Wales

Report

This report examines the major challenges for education in Wales, including low outcomes across a range of measures and high levels of inequality.

21 March 2024

The menopause "penalty"

Working Paper

We estimate the effect of menopause diagnosis on employment and earnings, reliance on social safety net programs, and demand for medical care.

18 March 2024

Spring Budget 2024

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All our analysis of the Spring Budget 2024. Includes research, comment, explainers and more.

6 March 2024

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