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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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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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What drives the timing of inter-vivos transfers?

Working Paper

We analyse the relationships between giving and receiving significant wealth transfers and experiencing key life events.

13 February 2023

Who gives and receives substantial financial transfers in Britain?

Working Paper

We document key patterns in the flow of significant gifts and loans between friends and family in Great Britain.

13 February 2023

Who gives wealth transfers to whom and when? Patterns in the giving and receiving of lifetime gifts and loans

Report

We examine the patterns in the giving and receiving of significant wealth transfers during life, and the association of transfers with life events.

13 February 2023

Inequality and the benefits system

Presentation

At this online event, we presented and discussed findings from a major new work on benefits.

2 February 2023

Benefits and tax credits

Report

This chapter finds that though benefits reforms pushed more people into work, the work is often part-time, low-paid and with little progression.

1 February 2023

Do work search requirements work? Evidence from a UK reform targeting single parents

Working Paper

We assess whether work search requirements for out-of-work welfare claimants are effective in inducing individuals to work & delivering fiscal savings

1 February 2023

Intensive margin labour supply and the dynamic effects of in-work transfers

Working Paper

How should dynamic considerations affect the design of in-work transfers?

1 February 2023

Can higher education policy boost intergenerational mobility? Evidence from an empirical matching model

Working Paper

We use rich administrative data to estimate a novel two-sided matching model of sorting into field and institution within higher education.

26 January 2023

Parental investments and intra-household inequality in child human capital: evidence from a survey experiment

Working Paper

This paper studies the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain intra-household inequality and its determinants.

7 December 2022

We need to understand the diversity of experience across ethnic groups

Comment

"Understanding the diversity of experience across ethnic groups has never been so important." Paul Johnson writes in the Times on ethnic inequalities.

5 December 2022

Political inequality

Report

We explore the relationship between political and economic inequality in the UK.

2 December 2022

Cost-of-living crisis to hit students harder than expected

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Students will be hit harder by the cost-of-living crisis than previously thought. Poorest students will be more than £1,000 worse off than in 2020–21.

30 November 2022