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Research in this area aims to understand the behaviour of consumers - their choice of which goods and services to purchase, the sensitivity of their decisions to changes in prices, the interdependence of decisions made by firms and those made by consumers and the implications of all these factors for government policy and for the wider economy.
Past research at the IFS has made substantial contributions to the understanding of these topics. Ongoing areas of interest include household consumption and how it changes over the lifecycle; the modelling of demand; behavioural economics and rationality; the measurement of consumption and expenditure; consumer and firm behaviour in the food market; the construction of price indices and the distributional impact of inflation. Search
Using survey data spanning multiple house-price cycles over nearly forty years, this paper documents the association between house prices and homeownership at age thirty.
Orazio Attanasio, Erik Hurst and Luigi Pistaferri
This paper uses various techniques to look for accurate measurements of trends in consumption inequality as well as income inequality.
This presentation was made at a workshop held at the Institute for Fiscal Studies about resource allocation within households in March 2012.
The Home Office have unveiled their alcohol strategy to reduce excess alcohol consumption. Notably, it includes a proposal to introduce a minimum price per alcohol unit in England and Wales, suggesting 40p as a likely rate. Analysing the detailed off-licence alcohol purchase data of more than 19,000 households, this observation argues that the policy would be a very significant intervention.
This presentation was given at a meeting of the Living Costs and Food Survey User Group at the Royal Statistical Society on 20 March 2012.
Matthew Polisson and John Quah
We show that an agent maximizing some utility function on a discrete (as opposed to continuous) consumption space will obey the generalized axiom of revealed preference (GARP) so long as the agent obeys cost efficiency.
This paper compares the goods and characteristics models of the consumer within a non-parametric revealed preference framework.
This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data
This paper considers what role in-home barcode scanner data could play in collecting household expenditure information as part of national budget surveys. One role is as a source of validation.
This presentation was given at the 2012 Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS UK) Road User Charging Conference held in London on 23rd February 2012.
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   An IFS research fellow is leading an independent review into how to make automatic enrolment into workplace pensions operate best.
IFS researchers develop a model of the Mexican tax system that will be used by the Mexican Government analysts.
IFS researchers have evaluated whether the temporary VAT cut was able to boost the economy effectively.
IFS researchers present and discuss new research on retirement saving with a group of business leaders and policy makers.
IFS researchers have monitored the extent to which some households experience higher rates of inflation than others.
In light of Government objectives to increase environmental taxation, we investigate whether the UK tax system is becoming more or less ‘green’.
Government departments used IFS research to inform decision-marking about a temporary cut in VAT.
IFS researchers found that the Saving Gateway was not the best way to support lower income families; government acted on this advice.
Methods developed at IFS for measuring wealth were instrumental in establishing a detailed government dataset about assets and debt in Britain.
In a tough economic climate IFS looks at how households are able to cope.
IFS researchers have investigated whether it is possible to measure the distributional impact of changes to spending on public services.
IFS researchers have investigated the relative merits of government policies designed to protect elderly households from the coldest winters.
IFS researchers suggest that a minimum price for alcohol could have a big impact.
IFS develops data on food prices and nutrition to build capacity for policy-relevant social science research.
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