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.
Firm heterogeneity and the impact of payroll taxes Working PaperWe examine the heterogeneous impact of a large payroll tax cut for older workers in Hungary.24 November 2022
Revealed beliefs and the marriage market return to education Working PaperThis paper develops a new methodology to analyse how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters’ schooling and marriage.23 November 2022
VOG: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Impact of Air Pollution on Student Learning Outcomes Working PaperThis study pairs variation stemming from volcanic eruptions with student test scores to estimate the impact of particulates on student performance.22 November 2022
Public childcare, labor market outcomes of caregivers, and child development: experimental evidence from Brazil Working PaperThis study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their caregivers.8 November 2022
Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes Working PaperWe study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers using rich administrative data from the Netherlands.7 November 2022
Technology, skills, and performance: the case of robots in surgery Working PaperThis paper investigates the potential of new technologies to reduce disparities in the provision of healthcare services.7 November 2022
Firms as tax collectors Working PaperWe show that delegating tax collection to large firms can help build tax capacity in weak-enforcement settings. 31 October 2022
The impact of area level mental health interventions on outcomes for secondary school pupils: Evidence from the HeadStart programme in England Working PaperThis paper provides the first robust evaluation of the impacts on school outcomes of HeadStart for area-level mental health interventions.13 October 2022
The health effects of universal early childhood interventions: evidence from Sure Start Working PaperWe evaluate the short- and medium-term health impacts of Sure Start.13 October 2022
IV Methods for Tobit Models Working PaperThis paper studies models of processes generating censored outcomes with endogenous explanatory variables and instrumental variable restrictions.3 October 2022
Prenatal sugar consumption and late-life human capital and health: analyses based on postwar rationing and polygenic scores Working PaperWe exploit the abolishment and subsequent reintroduction of rationing sweet confectionery in the UK and consider the effects on late-life health.26 September 2022
What drives wage stagnation: monopsony or monopoly? Working PaperWages for the vast majority of workers have stagnated since the 1980s while productivity has grown.26 September 2022
Market power and wage inequality Working PaperWe propose a theory of how market power affects wage inequality. 26 September 2022
Gender norms, violence and adolescent girls’ trajectories: evidence from a field experiment in India Working PaperWe compare the effectiveness of targeting only adolescent girls with an approach that engages with enforcers of gender norms in the wider community.26 September 2022
First generation elite: the role of school networks Working PaperIntergenerational persistence in studying for elite education is high across the world. We study why this phenomenon emerges.14 September 2022
Job displacement costs of phasing out coal Working PaperWe use the dramatic collapse of the UK coal industry to estimate the long-term impact on displaced miners.14 September 2022
Optimal random taxation and redistribution Working PaperWe assess the usefulness of stochastic redistribution among a continuum of risk-averse agents with quasilinear utilities in labor.7 September 2022
Are trade wars class wars? The importance of trade-induced horizontal inequality Working PaperThis paper demonstrates conceptually and empirically the importance of “trade-induced horizontal inequality."6 September 2022
Overconfidence and technology adoption in health care Working PaperWe study the determinants of adoption in the case of implantable cardiac defibrillators, for which we document large differences across hospitals.31 August 2022
Design of two-stage experiments with an application to spillovers in tax compliance Working PaperWe set up a framework to conduct experiments for estimating spillover effects when units are grouped into mutually exclusive clusters.22 August 2022
