Researchers at IFS monitor the changes in inequality across the population.

The aim of this project, which is jointly funded by the NAPF and ESRC, is to examine, theoretically and empirically, some key questions relating to individual engagement with the annuity market. This programme of work focuses on the decumulation stage of pension saving – in particular, examining annuitisation decisions – which has been relatively under-researched compared to the accumulation phase.

The objectives of this project is to study how individuals' labour supply is affected by the structure of the tax and benefit system and to what extent the different work patterns observed in France, the UK and the US (and how these have changed over time) can be explained by the different tax and benefit structures. The project aims at using household data sets and microsimulation models of tax and benefit systems in a comparable manner across these three countries.

This project investigates the nature of retirement saving. In particular we make use of the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing to examine the determinants of retirement saving and retirement ages.

This project is being co-ordinated through RAND in California and brings together a large international group of researchers. By using new data and a number of different modeling approaches it aims to improve understanding of retirement decisions particularly considering what makes people reduce their work effort later in life than we have to date.

The centre for economic research on ageing gathers together IFS research about ageing and will take it forward on a coherent basis, targeting the research towards the big policy questions in the economics of ageing. At the heart of the centre is the analysis, and design, of individual level data on all aspects of later life, including economic and social position, health and cognitive function.

Working with the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL this project aims to show how pension arrangements and incentives relate to other individual circumstances such as income, wealth, broader measures of socio-economic position, physical and mental health and functioning, the nature of work and leisure activities and family circumstances.

This research involved some secondary analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) to allow the Pensions Commission to carry out comparisons of a MORI survey with the ELSA data, to provide additional information on the pensions arrangements of LSA respondents and to provide additional information on the expectations of ELSA respondents.

Current research is looking at changes in wealth in the over 50 population and continuing to look at consumption around retirement in order to understand the adequacy of retirement saving.

The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing is an exciting new study, the aim of ELSA is to become an interdisciplinary data resource on health, economic position and quality of life as people age.