How the UK’s income tax system is poorly designed - and how reforms could make it fairer, simpler, and more efficient.

The triple lock creates unpredictability in public spending and disproportionately benefits better-off pensioners. A better ...

Responding to today’s ONS figures on the public finances, Nick Ridpath, Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal ...

We explore the UK’s public finances and why further fiscal consolidation may be needed to meet the government’s borrowing and ...

Lars Nesheim is a Professor of Economics at UCL and Co-Director of the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap). After obtaining his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2001, he worked for ...

The Chancellor's second Budget will be a tricky one. The fiscal outlook has deteriorated, raising the prospect of spending ...

In a model calibrated to the US, intra-household consumption inequality explains nearly one-fifth of overall inequality.

We introduce a novel survey tool that asks teachers to evaluate and comment on the presence of stereotypes in images drawn ...

By aggregating age-related epigenetic markers, epigenetic ‘clocks’ have become the leading tool for studying biological aging ...

Tom is a Senior Research Economist in the Income, Work and Welfare sector at IFS. His research covers the design and effects of tax and benefit policy, including how they affect families’ labour ...

We present new evidence from unique administrative data on child disability in Italy, examining prevalence by geography and ...

“The laureates’ work shows that economic growth cannot be taken for granted. We must uphold the mechanisms that underly ...