 Facts and figures about UK taxes, benefits and public spending.
Income distribution, poverty and inequality.
Analysing government fiscal forecasts and tax and spending.
Analysis of the fiscal choices an independent Scotland would face.
Case studies that give a flavour of the areas where IFS research has an impact on society.
Reforming the tax system for the 21st century.
A peer-reviewed quarterly journal publishing articles by academics and practitioners.
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Ian is a Research Fellow of IFS and a Professor of Economics at UCL. He joined UCL in 1991 and has been attached to the IFS since 1990. His research at IFS includes work on household welfare measurement and distributional analysis, consumption and demand behaviour, attitudes to public spending, political economy and the economics of immigration. 
All available publications
Cormac O'Dea and Ian Preston, March 2012,
The distributional impact of public spending in the UK,
IFS Working Papers
, W12/06
Cormac O'Dea and Ian Preston, October 2010,
Can we assess the distributional impact of cuts to spending on public services?,
Observations
Valérie Lechene and Ian Preston, September 2010,
Non cooperative household demand,
IFS Working Papers
, W10/18
Previous versions:
Valérie Lechene and Ian Preston, December 2008,
Non cooperative household demand,
IFS Working Papers
, W08/14
Cormac O'Dea and Ian Preston, July 2010,
The distributional impact of public spending in the UK,
External publications
, 2020 Public Services Trust
James Alt, Ian Preston and Luke Sibieta, April 2010,
The political economy of taxation,
in Dimensions of Tax Design: the Mirrlees Review, J. Mirrlees, S. Adam, T. Besley, R. Blundell, S. Bond, R. Chote, M. Gammie, P. Johnson, G. Myles and J. Poterba (eds) Oxford University Press,
Book Chapters
Valérie Lechene and Ian Preston, December 2008,
Non cooperative household demand,
IFS Working Papers
, W08/14
New version:
Valérie Lechene and Ian Preston, September 2010,
Non cooperative household demand,
IFS Working Papers
, W10/18
Previous versions:
Valérie Lechene and Ian Preston, January 2007,
Demand properties in household Nash equilibrium,
IFS Working Papers
, W07/01
Richard Blundell, Hamish Low and Ian Preston, November 2008,
Decomposing changes in income risk using consumption data,
IFS Working Papers
, W08/13
Previous versions:
Richard Blundell, Hamish Low and Ian Preston, October 2004,
Income risk and consumption inequality: a simulation study,
IFS Working Papers
, W04/26
Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri and Ian Preston, April 2008,
Consumption inequality and partial insurance,
American Economic Review,
Vol. 98, No. 5, pp. 1887-1921,
Journal Articles
Previous versions:
Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri and Ian Preston, November 2004,
Consumption inequality and partial insurance,
IFS Working Papers
, W04/28
Tim Besley and Ian Preston, November 2007,
Electoral bias and policy choice: theory and evidence,
Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Vol. 122, No. 4, pp. 1473-1510,
Journal Articles
Previous versions:
Tim Besley and Ian Preston, February 2007,
Electoral bias and policy choice: theory and evidence,
IFS Working Papers
, W07/06
James Alt, Ian Preston and Luke Sibieta, April 2007,
The political economy of tax policy,
Conference Papers
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