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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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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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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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How important are defined contribution pensions for financing retirement?

Report

We provide new evidence on the importance of defined contribution pensions in financing the retirement of those currently approaching retirement.

30 June 2023

Earnings and income inequality in Scotland

Presentation

This presentation to the Royal Society of Edinburgh provides an early preview of upcoming work on labour market trends and inequalities in Scotland.

28 June 2023

Housing quality and affordability for lower-income households

Report

We examine patterns of housing tenure, quality and affordability for people on lower incomes.

27 June 2023

Don’t cheer end of earnings squeeze: there is more pain to come

Comment

Paul Johnson writes for The Times on the pain to come for households and the public finances.

19 June 2023

Who has low savings and how problematic can that be?

Presentation

IFS researchers presented what we know about which groups of people are most likely to have low savings and how long this tends to last.

16 June 2023

Government spending has long been targeted at the poorest in our society

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Paul Johnson writes for The Times on how taking account of public service spending is critical to assessing the government's redistribution of wealth.

5 June 2023

The heterogeneous effects of social assistance and unemployment insurance: evidence from a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings

Working Paper

We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance.

5 June 2023

Public service spending has become significantly more progressive since the 1980s

Comment

Changes in the composition of spending and rising education participation mean public service spending is more progressive than in the 1980s & 1990s.

31 May 2023

The distribution of public service spending

Report

This report for the IFS-Deaton Review looks at how public service spending is distributed across the population in the UK.

31 May 2023

Lots more people are working, but in jobs that keep them in poverty

Comment

"As well as a continuing focus on making sure people can get into work, we also need to look at the quality of work." Paul Johnson in the Times.

8 May 2023

First generation elite: the role of school networks

Working Paper

This paper shows differences in social capital are a key driver of the high intergenerational persistence in elite education.

5 May 2023

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.

13 April 2023

Wealth and welfare across generations

Working Paper

This paper examines why younger generations no longer have substantially more wealth than their recent predecessors did at the same age.

11 April 2023

The policy menu for school lunches: options and trade-offs in expanding free school meals in England

Report

The expansion of free school meals has been frequently discussed. IFS researchers consider the costs and benefits of different options.

29 March 2023

Raising the state pension age risks trapping millions in poverty

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"Exactly when next to raise the pension age is a matter of judgment and trade-offs." Paul Johnson writes for the Times.

27 March 2023

Inequality fell in the first two years of the pandemic as middle- and high-income households became worse off

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Declining real incomes for middle- and high-income households, together with a rise for poorer households, led to a reduction in income inequality.

23 March 2023

Intergenerational altruism and transfers of time and money: a life cycle perspective

Working Paper

We find that time investments, educational investments, and assortative matching have a greater impact on generating inequality than cash transfers.

28 February 2023

Inequalities: which ones matter, and what to do about them?

Presentation

Paul Johnson gave a talk at the Oxford Martin School where he drew on the extensive work of the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities.

27 February 2023

Public finances may be improving, but personal circumstances certainly are not

Comment

"Don’t be lulled into thinking we have reached the bottom of hole into which living standards have been sliding. We almost certainly haven’t."

27 February 2023

The cost of living crisis: a pre-Budget briefing

Report

The recent surge in inflation, driven by spectacular increases in energy prices, has driven sharp falls in household living standards.

22 February 2023

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