Announcements

IFS Research Director Rachel Griffith has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Fellows are elected after an extensive peer review process for the excellence and impact of their work through the use of social science for public benefit. This includes substantial contributions a...

IFS researchers Jonathan Cribb and Professor Richard Disney presented papers at the Office of Manpower Economics Conference: 'Research on public sector pay' on Thursday 21 Spetember 2017, along with a number of other organisations. The presentations can be found here....

IFS has launched a new searchable directory of Low and Middle Income country Longitudinal Population Studies. Developed on behalf of the Economic and

We are delighted to announce that IFS Senior Research Economist Peter Levell has been appointed to theONS's Technical Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices. The Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices (Technical) (APCP Technical) provides independent advice to the National Statistician on technical aspects o...

On 1st of September of 2017, Laura Abramovsky spoke at HMRC's International Tax Training Programme, a flagship programme run by HMRC on behalf of the Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators (CATA). Laura introduced IFS' work to support evidence-based tax policy and administration design in t...

We are delighted to announce that IFS will be a partner in the newly established National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Obesity Policy Research Unit (OPRU), to be hosted by the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and in partnership with researchers at IFS, UCL, City University a...

Researchers from the DfID-funded Centre for Tax Analysis in Developing Countries (TAXDEV) at the IFS have completed their most recent trip to Ghana’s Ministry of Finance as part of our collaborative research and capacity development programme. During this visit (7th to 11th August), as well as...

Researchers from the Centre for Tax Analysis in Developing Countries (TAXDEV) at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) are collaborating with the recently established Tax Policy Directorate (TPD) of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation (MOFEC) of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethio...

Paul Johnson presented aBBC Radio 4 Analysis Programme discussing the impact of minimum wages. Listen to the programme here....

For the third year in a row, the IFS has won the Prospect award for best economics and finance think tank. The judges praised the IFS for building on its unrivalled authority on the public finances....

The IFS was awarded the UK think tank of the year for 2015, for the second year running. The award, runby Prospect Magazine, has not previously been given to the same organisation two years in a row. The Institute was also the winner in the 'financial and economic' category. One of the judges, the...