 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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Our research considers the determinants and effectiveness of educational investments across the lifecycle, from early childcare and pre-school education, through to primary and secondary schools, post-compulsory schooling, higher education and adult learning.
Our overarching aim is to understand the relative effectiveness of different policy interventions aimed at promoting human capital investment. To this end, we have a wide range of research and policy evaluation projects underway. Search
Costas Meghir and Mårten Palme
The impact of compulsory schooling laws as well as the abolition of early selection by ability remain important issues in the educational debate.
Lorraine Dearden
The paper estimates the returns to education for a cohort of individuals born in
This paper provides a non-technical review of the evidence on the returns to education and training for the individual, the firm and the economy at large
Even Caroli and John Van Reenen
This paper develops and estimates a human capital model of wage growth based on learning by doing.
The paper estimates the returns to education for a cohort of individuals born in Britain in March 1958 who have been followed since birth until
Lorraine Dearden, Stephen Machin, Howard Reed and David Wilkinson
Are the provision and the extent of work-related training in the UK affected by the amount of job-to-job mobility among the work-force? Conversely, does receiving different types of work-related training make employees more or less likely to move jobs? This report examines both these questions in detail using panel data from the British Labour Force Survey and the National Child Development Survey.
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   IFS was instrumental in creating data that is helping policymakers understand the barriers to attending university faced by poor children.
We provided evidence to the Browne Review of higher education funding about the impact of a number of higher education finance reforms.
IFS research increased awareness of the disadvantages faced by children born at the end of the academic year.
We analysed the impact of the 2006 HE funding reforms and informed the surrounding debate.
An IFS assessment of the effectiveness of the Education Maintenance Allowance informed the Government’s decision to extend the policy nationwide in 2004.
We provided a rigorous assessment of the rationale for a pupil premium and analysis of how it would affect school finances.
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