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Poverty, inequality and social mobility

Our research looks at inequalities in living standards, education, health and other outcomes. We study the role of labour market outcomes, taxes and benefits, and structural forces like globalisation in shaping trends in poverty, inequality and social mobility.

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Education inequalities

Report

We look at shifts in the education landscape in the UK and its impact on inequalities.

16 August 2022

The long squeeze: rising inflation and the current government support package

Comment

We look at the impact of inflation and the government's proposals to tackle it.

15 August 2022

Why is inequality in the labour market growing?

Explainer

Giulia Giupponi takes us through the latest research on the UK labour market.

3 August 2022

Early Childhood Development, Human Capital, and Poverty

Journal article

In this article, we discuss the framework used in economics to model parental investments and early childhood development.

1 August 2022

Families and inequalities

Report

Families play a key role in nurturing, socialising and supporting children. Britain has seen marked changes in partnership and parenting behaviours.

28 July 2022

Parental Investments and Intra-household Inequality in Child Human Capital: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Working Paper

I study the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants.

21 July 2022

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2022

Presentation

IFS researchers presented the key findings from their 2022 flagship annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK.

14 July 2022

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2022

Report

We look at how the distribution of household income changed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

14 July 2022

Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK

Working Paper

We examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time in the UK.

6 July 2022

Pre-pandemic relative poverty rate for children of lone parents almost double that for children living with two parents

Comment

In the year prior to the pandemic, nearly half of children in lone-parent families were in relative poverty – defined as having an income of less than 60% of median incomes adjusted for household size.

4 July 2022

Future of the welfare state

Presentation

This talk was given by Paul Johnson at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's Future of Britain conference.

1 July 2022

In-kind transfers as insurance

Working Paper

Using calorie shortfalls as a marginal utility proxy, we find that in-kind transfers are preferred for low-income Indian households.

29 June 2022

Intergenerational income persistence: evidence for the UK

Working Paper

We spotlight some newer directions in intergenerational mobility research within economics driven by changes in some key trends in the recent decades

29 June 2022

Early childhood inequalities

Presentation

The environment that children are raised in, and their development of cognitive, and social and emotional skills affect the subsequent trajectory of their lives. Inequalities between children in these domains open up very early in life.

23 June 2022

Early childhood inequalities

Report

Through the lottery of birth, children are born into different socio-economic circumstances and grow up in environments that are remarkably different from each other. This report looks at inequalities in early childhood in the UK.

23 June 2022

How did increasing the state pension age from 65 to 66 affect household incomes?

Report

We quantify the impact of increasing the state pension age from 65 to 66 on household incomes, poverty and public finances, after – in particular – ta

20 June 2022