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Trade Wars: The end of globalisation?
podcast
Rising tariffs and trade wars are reshaping global trade. Is this the end of globalisation—and what does it mean for the UK and the world economy?
4 June 2025
Why is the government reforming health-related benefits?
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We discuss the government's welfare reforms aimed at helping sick and disabled people into work, and what the changes mean for health-related benefits
14 May 2025
What's the future of corporation tax?
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Corporation tax was introduced 60 years ago. Despite many predictions of its decline, it is now forecast to raise record amounts. 
10 April 2025
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CIOT/IFS Debate: What next for international tax co-operation?
event 16 June 2025
At this online event <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:"Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;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;">an expert panel will debate the future of international tax co-operation.
Scaling early childhood development programmes and policies in low- and middle-income countries
conference 24 June 2025
Thrive, on behalf of IFS and OPM, is hosting a two-day international interdisciplinary conference.
IFS Deaton Review: Inequalities in the 21st Century special session at the RES 2025 Annual Conference
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This year's RES Conference features a special session on the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities with key IFS contributors to the review.
16 June 2025
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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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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

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

24 October 2022

Social incentives, delivery agents and the effectiveness of development interventions

Journal article Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics

We study the use of the local delivery model for development interventions in the context of a standard agricultural extension intervention in Uganda.

6 October 2022

IV Methods for Tobit Models

Working Paper

This paper studies models of processes generating censored outcomes with endogenous explanatory variables and instrumental variable restrictions.

3 October 2022

Estimation of a heterogeneous demand function with Berkson errors

Journal article The Review of Economics and Statistics

We show the importance of Berkson errors for demand estimation with nonseparable unobserved heterogeneity.

8 September 2022

Optimal random taxation and redistribution

Working Paper

We assess the usefulness of stochastic redistribution among a continuum of risk-averse agents with quasilinear utilities in labor.

7 September 2022

Design of two-stage experiments with an application to spillovers in tax compliance

Working Paper

We set up a framework to conduct experiments for estimating spillover effects when units are grouped into mutually exclusive clusters.

22 August 2022

More powerful cluster randomized control trials

Working Paper

This paper describes methods to optimally choose the number of treatment and control clusters and the number of units within.

16 June 2022

Social proximity and misinformation: experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India

Working Paper

We study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health behaviour campaigns.

8 June 2022

Policy choice in time series by empirical welfare maximization

Working Paper

This paper develops a novel method for policy choice in a dynamic setting where the available data is a multi-variate time-series.

19 May 2022

Narrative restrictions and proxies

Working Paper

We compare two approaches to using information about the signs of structural shocks at speciﬁc dates within a structural vector autoregression (SVAR): imposing ‘narrative restrictions’ (NR) on the shock signs in an otherwise set-identiﬁed SVAR; and casting the information about the shock signs as a discrete-valued ‘narrative proxy’ (NP) to point-identify the impulse responses.

6 April 2022