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What's the future of corporation tax?
podcast
Corporation tax was introduced 60 years ago. Despite many predictions of its decline, it is now forecast to raise record amounts. 
10 April 2025
Spring Statement 2025: IFS Zooms In
podcast
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27 March 2025
The Schools Bill: what's changing and why?
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The bill aims to improve education and social care for children. But will it work?
11 March 2025
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IFS Annual Lecture: Trade Wars and the Future of Globalisation
conference 20 May 2025
Professor Meredith Crowley will deliver the 2025 <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(37, 61, 64);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:"DM Serif Text", serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">IFS Annual Lecture. 
From Sure Start to Family Hubs: how can evidence best inform policymaking for joined up family support in the early years?
conference 22 May 2025
This event will explore the evidence and policy landscape around early years family support. It will also mark the launch of a new report from IFS.
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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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To be or not to be (employed): two decades of fluctuating earnings and income inequality in Spain

Journal article Fiscal Studies

This paper offers a descriptive overview of the evolution of individual earnings and household income inequality in Spain over the last two decades.

2 October 2024

What lies behind France's low level of income inequality?

Journal article Fiscal Studies

We document the evolution of working-age individual pre-tax and disposable income inequality in France since the late 1960s using household surveys.

2 October 2024

Health inequality and economic disparities by race, ethnicity, and gender

Working Paper

We measure health inequality during middle and old age by race, ethnicity, and gender.

1 October 2024

Education and inequality: an international perspective

Working Paper

Using existing literatures and new empirical evidence, we address whether educational expansion is an effective tool for reducing inequality.

20 September 2024

Seclusion and women's time: Descriptive evidence from India

Working Paper

We use rich time-use data on where, and how, individuals spend their time to explore women’s seclusion in India.

17 September 2024

Think you know all about house prices and pay inequality? Think again

Comment

"Perceptions take a while to catch up with reality and that presents a challenge for the new government." Paul Johnson writes for The Times.

2 September 2024

Hours of work and the long-run effects of in-work transfers

Journal article Economica

We find that reforms incentivising full-time work can significantly boost incomes, including for poorer households, as well as enhance overall welfare

21 August 2024

Why are universities in financial trouble?

Podcast

Why are universities struggling, what happens if they go bust and what can government do to help? What other challenges do the HE and FE sectors face?

21 August 2024

Cheapflation and the rise of inflation inequality

Working Paper

Using household scanner data for fast-moving consumer goods, we show that this was accompanied by historically high rates of inflation inequality.

14 August 2024

The state of gender inequality in Latin America

Comment

This column examines gender inequality in Latin America, and finds that employed women are over-represented in smaller firms and the informal sector.

6 August 2024

The determinants of local housing supply in England

Working Paper

We estimate local housing supply elasticities for 325 local authorities and 6,788 census tract areas in England.

1 August 2024

Early home visiting delivery model and maternal and child mental health at primary school age

Working Paper

We study the mental health impacts of a prenatal and infancy home visiting program for disadvantaged families, assessed through diagnostic interviews.

30 July 2024