At this event, senior researchers from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research joined together to look at how Covid-19 has impacted the public finances.
9 November 2020
This presentation was given at Southwark Exchequer Services' Stakeholder Conference on 19 November 2019.
19 November 2019
This IFS Public Talk, jointly organised with the University of Manchester and part of the 2019 ESRC Festival of Social Science, gave an economist's perspective on how we, as a country, can pay for our health and social care system.
7 November 2019
In this Facebook Live event, IFS Research Economist Rebekah Stroud looked at the economics of "sin taxes", answering questions such as how high or low should these taxes be, and who bears the burden of them?
8 November 2019
In this Facebook Live event, IFS Research Economist Agnes Norris Keiller looked at the economics of income inequality, answering questions such as how is inequality changing, and what are the tradeoffs in achieving a more equal society?
5 November 2019
In this Facebook Live event, IFS Research Economist David Sturrock looked at the economics of pensions and the ageing population, answering questions such as how will changing demographics affect public pensions, and what can the government do about it?
5 November 2019
In this Facebook Live event, IFS Research Economist Ben Zaranko looked at the economics of healthcare and social insurance, answering questions such as how and why do countries differ in how they provide health care, and why can’t we just leave it to the market?
4 November 2019
At this event, speaker set out what we know, and what we need to know, about the very rich in the UK. Using a mixture of data from household surveys and data from tax authorities, the speakers looked at various characteristics of those at the top of the income distribution.
5 November 2019