The £600 billion problem awaiting the next government podcastWe speak to David Gauke and Giles Wilkes, two experts who have been at the heart of the spending review process.25 April 2024
Be the Chancellor Our interactive tool lets you be the Chancellor. Change spending plans, set tax policies and see how your choices impact borrowing and debt.
Should we worry about government debt? podcastDavid Miles joins us to discuss high government debt and its impact on the economy. 11 April 2024
IFS Annual Lecture - Innovation and productivity policies: a budgetary perspective event 15 May 2024 Professor Heidi Williams (Dartmouth College) will deliver the 2024 IFS Annual Lecture on innovation and productivity policies.
Higher Education Access and Funding: challenges and policy options conference 14 May 2024 This one-day academic conference will look at access to and funding of Higher Education systems.
Jobs landing pageAt IFS, we recruit and train top-quality economists and professional support staff. We aim to foster a respectful and inclusive working environment.20 July 2022
Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy The Research Centre at the heart of IFS is the CPP.
What drives the timing of inter-vivos transfers? Working PaperWe analyse the relationships between giving and receiving significant wealth transfers and experiencing key life events.13 February 2023
Taking the biscuit: how Safari privacy policies affect online advertising Working PaperWe analyse how much advertisers are willing to pay for third-party cookies and how tightening privacy policies affect market outcomes. 9 February 2023
Who benefits from free health insurance: evidence from Mexico Working PaperWe present a comprehensive evaluation of the health impacts of the introduction & expansion of the Seguro Popular health insurance program in Mexico.6 February 2023
Do work search requirements work? Evidence from a UK reform targeting single parents Working PaperWe assess whether work search requirements for out-of-work welfare claimants are effective in inducing individuals to work & delivering fiscal savings1 February 2023
Intensive margin labour supply and the dynamic effects of in-work transfers Working PaperHow should dynamic considerations affect the design of in-work transfers?1 February 2023
Effective Tax Rates and Firm Size Working PaperThis paper provides novel evidence on the relationship between firm size and effective corporate tax rates.1 February 2023
Can higher education policy boost intergenerational mobility? Evidence from an empirical matching model Working PaperWe use rich administrative data to estimate a novel two-sided matching model of sorting into field and institution within higher education.26 January 2023
To invest or not to invest in sanitation: the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power Working PaperWe study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions.24 January 2023
Labeled loans and human capital investments Working PaperWe provide rigorous evidence of the impacts of labelled microcredit on household sanitation investment and borrowing behaviour.24 January 2023
Identifying network ties from panel data: theory and an application to tax competition Working PaperWe present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between agents.18 January 2023
The effect of pension wealth on employment Working PaperThis study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment.3 January 2023
A monetary-fiscal theory of sudden inflations Working PaperThis paper posits an information channel as the explanation for sudden inflations.20 December 2022
Identifying the effect of persuasion Working PaperThis paper examines a commonly used measure of persuasion whose precise interpretation has been obscure in the literature.14 December 2022
Job ladder, human capital, and the cost of job loss Working PaperWe propose a structural model of the labour market with heterogeneous firms, on-the-job search and accumulation of specific and general human capital.13 December 2022
Parental investments and intra-household inequality in child human capital: evidence from a survey experiment Working PaperThis paper studies the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain intra-household inequality and its determinants.7 December 2022
Savings after retirement Working PaperWe discuss the empirical strategies used to differentiate the motivations behind the 'retirement savings puzzle.'5 December 2022
Shaping gender-stereotypical beliefs: the role of parents and peers Working PaperWe use a lab-in-the-field experiment to explore the influence of parents and peers in shaping adolescents’ beliefs on gender-stereotypical fields.2 December 2022
Moment conditions for dynamic panel logit models with fixed effects Working PaperThis paper investigates the construction of moment conditions in discrete choice panel data with individual specific fixed effects.1 December 2022
Parental beliefs, perceived health risks, and time investment in children: evidence from COVID-19 Working PaperWhat role did parental beliefs about risks and returns play for the allocation of time with children during the pandemic?25 November 2022
Father of the bride, or steel magnolias? Targeting men, women or both to reduce child marriage Working PaperWe conduct a cluster-randomized control trial of an edutainment intervention aimed at delaying marriage of adolescent children in rural Pakistan.25 November 2022
