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How can Rachel Reeves make her first Budget a success?
podcast
We’re look at some of the challenges facing the Chancellor and what she can learn from previous Budgets.
24 October 2024
What options does Rachel Reeves have for the Budget?
podcast
We explore the options the Chancellor has in the forthcoming Budget.
16 October 2024
How to reduce child poverty: compare the policy options
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Use these charts to compare policies for reducing child poverty and to examine how child poverty rates have changed over time across different groups.
3 October 2024
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Autumn Budget 2024: IFS analysis
event 31 October 2024
At this online webinar IFS researchers presented their initial response to new Chancellor Rachel Reeves' first Budget.
CIOT/IFS debate: How is tax damaging the housing market and how can we fix it?
event 27 November 2024
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event 2 December 2024
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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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Autumn Budget 2024

Collection

All our IFS analysis of Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Autumn Budget 2024.

24 October 2024

Green Budget 2024: Full report

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The new Chancellor faces a difficult fiscal inheritance. Her choices on tax and spending at this first Budget could define the rest of the parliament.

10 October 2024

IFS Green Budget 2024

Collection

All the analysis from our IFS Green Budget 2024, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and in partnership with Citi.

10 October 2024

Child poverty: trends and policy options

Report

Relative child poverty has increased. Which children are most likely to be affected? What policies would most effectively reduce child poverty?

3 October 2024

Health inequality and health types

Working Paper

We use k-means clustering, a machine learning technique, and Health and Retirement Study data to identify health types during middle and old age.

3 October 2024

How can government reduce child poverty?

Podcast

We're exploring why there's been an increase in child poverty since 2010 and options the government has to reduce this.

3 October 2024

Health inequality and economic disparities by race, ethnicity, and gender

Working Paper

We measure health inequality during middle and old age by race, ethnicity, and gender.

1 October 2024

Education and inequality: an international perspective

Working Paper

Using existing literatures and new empirical evidence, we address whether educational expansion is an effective tool for reducing inequality.

20 September 2024

Seclusion and women's time: Descriptive evidence from India

Working Paper

We use rich time-use data on where, and how, individuals spend their time to explore women’s seclusion in India.

17 September 2024

Think you know all about house prices and pay inequality? Think again

Comment

"Perceptions take a while to catch up with reality and that presents a challenge for the new government." Paul Johnson writes for The Times.

2 September 2024

Hours of work and the long-run effects of in-work transfers

Journal article Economica

We find that reforms incentivising full-time work can significantly boost incomes, including for poorer households, as well as enhance overall welfare

21 August 2024

Why are universities in financial trouble?

Podcast

Why are universities struggling, what happens if they go bust and what can government do to help? What other challenges do the HE and FE sectors face?

21 August 2024

Cheapflation and the rise of inflation inequality

Working Paper

Using household scanner data for fast-moving consumer goods, we show that this was accompanied by historically high rates of inflation inequality.

14 August 2024

The state of gender inequality in Latin America

Comment

This column examines gender inequality in Latin America, and finds that employed women are over-represented in smaller firms and the informal sector.

6 August 2024

The determinants of local housing supply in England

Working Paper

We estimate local housing supply elasticities for 325 local authorities and 6,788 census tract areas in England.

1 August 2024

Early home visiting delivery model and maternal and child mental health at primary school age

Working Paper

We study the mental health impacts of a prenatal and infancy home visiting program for disadvantaged families, assessed through diagnostic interviews.

30 July 2024