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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
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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.
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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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We continue to make advances in developing models and methods to study the dynamic behaviour of individuals and firms, the structure of the education, labour and marriage markets, and their implications for policy design and evaluation.

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Walk the talk: Measuring green preferences with social media data

Working Paper

We created a unique data set based on social media data by collecting all the tweets of 54,000 Swedish citizens between January and June 2019.

6 November 2023

Inference for rank-rank regressions

Working Paper

Slope coefficients in rank-rank regressions are popular measures of intergenerational mobility.

2 November 2023

Powerful t-tests in the presence of nonclassical measurement error

Working Paper

This paper proposes an alternative to the t-test hypothesis that a coefficient in linear regression is equal to zero when a regressor is mismeasured.

2 November 2023

Dementia incidence trend in England and Wales, 2002–19, and projection for dementia burden to 2040: analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Journal article

We examined dementia trends in England and Wales from 2002 to 2019, addressing bias and non-linearity, with limited post-2010 data.

30 October 2023

Inflation measurement with high frequency data

Working Paper

We use 8 years of data on 178 consumer product categories to compare bilateral and multilateral index number methods for computing monthly inflation.

18 October 2023

Identification analysis in models with unrestricted latent variables: Fixed effects and initial conditions

Working Paper

Examples of application to some static and dynamic binary, ordered and multiple discrete choice panel data models are presented.

11 October 2023

Identifying network ties from panel data: theory and an application to tax competition

Working Paper

We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between agents.

11 October 2023

Estimating intra-household sharing from time-use data

Working Paper

This report shows that it is possible to use time-use data to estimate resource sharing in households via linear regression.

8 September 2023

Robust estimation and inference in panels with interactive fixed effects

Working Paper

We consider estimation and inference for a regression coefficient in panels with interactive fixed effects (i.e., with a factor structure).

7 July 2023

Design of partial population experiments with an application to spillovers in tax compliance

Working Paper

We develop a framework to conduct experiments for estimating direct and spillover effects when units are grouped into mutually exclusive clusters.

24 April 2023

Heterogeneity of consumption responses to income shocks in the presence of nonlinear persistence

Working Paper

We use enhanced consumption data in the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics from 2005–2017 to explore the transmission of income shocks to consumption.

14 April 2023

Household responses to trade shocks

Working Paper

We study the responses of both individuals and their partners to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s.

24 March 2023

Taking the biscuit: how Safari privacy policies affect online advertising

Working Paper

We analyse how much advertisers are willing to pay for third-party cookies and how tightening privacy policies affect market outcomes.

9 February 2023

Identifying network ties from panel data: theory and an application to tax competition

Working Paper

We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between agents.

18 January 2023

Identifying the effect of persuasion

Working Paper

This paper examines a commonly used measure of persuasion whose precise interpretation has been obscure in the literature.

14 December 2022

Moment conditions for dynamic panel logit models with fixed effects

Working Paper

This paper investigates the construction of moment conditions in discrete choice panel data with individual specific fixed effects.

1 December 2022

Revealed beliefs and the marriage market return to education

Working Paper

This paper develops a new methodology to analyse how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters’ schooling and marriage.

23 November 2022

Public childcare, labor market outcomes of caregivers, and child development: experimental evidence from Brazil

Working Paper

This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their caregivers.

8 November 2022

Technology, skills, and performance: the case of robots in surgery

Working Paper

This paper investigates the potential of new technologies to reduce disparities in the provision of healthcare services.

7 November 2022

Gender norms, violence and adolescent girls’ trajectories: Evidence from India

Comment

Changing the attitudes and behaviours of those enforcing restrictive societal norms is critical for meaningful improvements in women’s wellbeing.

24 October 2022

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