Both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have proposed introducing a pupil premium in England, with the aim of narrowing the achievement gap between rich and poor by attaching greater levels...

The Green Budget will focus on the policy challenges confronting the Chancellor of the Exchequer in what is likely to be the last Budget before the General Election. It will be produced for the first time in collaboration with Barclays Capital and Barclays Wealth.

Recent policy initiatives have focused on facilitating employment for parents as a mean of lifting children out of poverty. But to what extent does entry into formal paid employment raise family...

The Chancellor will make his Pre-Budget statement on Wednesday 9 December. IFS will hold a briefing to present our analysis of this report on the following day, Thursday 10 December.

We would like to invite you to a special seminar (jointly organized with UCL) in honour of James Durbin. The speaker this year is Professor T.W. Anderson of Stanford University. He is probably...

Organised by: Andrew Chesher (cemmap and UCL), James Banks (IFS and UCL), Thomas Crossley (IFS and Cambridge), Liam Delaney (UCD), Colm Harmon (UCD) and Joachim Winter (Munich).This workshop...

The 2009 International Symposium on Econometric Theory and Applications is being hosted by Kyoto University. Full information on how to book a place at this conference can be found here.

Research on the compliance costs for individuals of applying for tax credits and benefits was presented to the Department for Work and Pensions.

In this course, modelled on the successful ``what's new in econometrics'' course we taught at the NBER in the summer of 2007, we will discuss developments in econometrics over the last decade and a half.

The Government has recently legislated radical private pension reforms that will lead to the majority of employees being enrolled automatically into a private pension and in some cases into a new...

Day 1: Monday 1 June 2009 12:00-12:30 Lunch 12:30-13:10 Marcos Vera Hernandez, "Health shocks, household consumption and child nutrition" (download SLIDES), joint with Aida Galiano...

This short course will provide a survey of the econometrics literature on semiparametric and nonparametric models and estimation methods. After a review of asymptotic theory for estimation...

This event, co-sponsored by the World Bank and IFS, will discuss policy issues surrounding Conditional Cash Transfers.

A conference in honour of Charles Manski's 60th birthday, co-sponsored by the Econometrics Centre at Northwestern University and cemmap. Attendance is by invitation. For further information,...

The Government's latest figures on the distribution of income and the extent of relative poverty in the UK will be released by the Department for Work and Pensions on Thursday 7 May. The IFS will release a full report on the latest figures and recent trends on Friday 8 May.