 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
Ian Preston, forthcoming,
Inequality and income gaps,
Research in Economic Inequality,
Elsevier,
Journal Articles
Previous versions:
Ian Preston, December 2006,
Inequality and income gaps,
IFS Working Papers
, W06/25
Tim Besley and Ian Preston, February 2007,
Electoral bias and policy choice: theory and evidence,
IFS Working Papers
, W07/06
Now published:
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
Valérie Lechene and Ian Preston, January 2007,
Demand properties in household Nash equilibrium,
IFS Working Papers
, W07/01
New version:
Valérie Lechene and Ian Preston, December 2008,
Non cooperative household demand,
IFS Working Papers
, W08/14
Ian Preston, December 2006,
Inequality and income gaps,
IFS Working Papers
, W06/25
Now published:
Ian Preston, forthcoming,
Inequality and income gaps,
Research in Economic Inequality,
Journal Articles
, Elsevier
James Alt, Ian Preston and Luke Sibieta, October 2006,
The political economy of taxation: issues and implications for the UK,
Presentations
Tim Besley and Ian Preston, January 2006,
Electoral bias and policy choice: theory and evidence,
IFS Working Papers
, W06/03
Valérie Lechene and Ian Preston, March 2005,
Household Nash equilibrium with voluntarily contributed public goods,
IFS Working Papers
, W05/06
Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri and Ian Preston, November 2004,
Consumption inequality and partial insurance,
IFS Working Papers
, W04/28
Now published:
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
Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri and Ian Preston, October 2004,
Imputing consumption in the PSID using food demand estimates from the CEX,
IFS Working Papers
, W04/27
Richard Blundell, Hamish Low and Ian Preston, October 2004,
Income risk and consumption inequality: a simulation study,
IFS Working Papers
, W04/26
New version:
Richard Blundell, Hamish Low and Ian Preston, November 2008,
Decomposing changes in income risk using consumption data,
IFS Working Papers
, W08/13
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