Announcements

The Times Education Commission, of which IFS Director Paul Johnson is a member, has published its final report.

IFS Research Associate Sarah Smith has been awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to Economics and Education

IFS Director Paul Johnson has been made a Visiting Professor at the UCL Policy Lab, a joint initiative between UCL’s Department of Economics and Political Science.

IFS Research Associate Yunan Ji has received the 2022 Student Paper award from the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon).

Dániel Prinz, Senior Research Economist and Country Programme Manager for Ethiopia at the IFS and TaxDev, was awarded an Honourable Mention by the 2022 John Heinz Dissertation Award.

Alison Andrew, IFS Senior Research Economist and UCL PhD candidate, has been selected for the second Review of Economic Studies (Restud) North American Tour 2022.

IFS Research Director Professor Sir Richard Blundell was the first guest speaker of the Distinguished Speaker series of 2022 at the University of Glasgow's Adam Smith Business School

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has awarded three years of funding to the Institute for Fiscal Studies to look into the reasons behind the UK’s stagnating productivity.

IFS Research Director Professor Dame Rachel Griffith has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Political Economy.