Each year at IFS we recruit and train talented economists. We specialise in the economic analysis of public policy, bridging the gap between purely academic research and issues of practical policy ...

Everyone who would have paid inheritance tax under the current system would benefit from the tax cut. The biggest ...

Growth in every postcode. For all of these, the devil will be in the detail. Turning a vision into actionable policy. That’s ...

This paper examines how the quality of government spending changes at the end of the fiscal year, using administrative data from financing programmes for small and medium-sized enterprises in South ...

This paper examines tax non-compliance among individuals in Germany who were legally required to file a tax return but failed to do so.

We study how poorly-behaved children affect learning and other outcomes of their peers using data froma unique experiment in Ecuador.

Abstract The analysis of regional growth or levelling up in income, health and human resources is a challenge as it involves measuring growth multidimensionally with ordered categorical variables. The ...

Work experience has been found to be a key determinant of work and wages for educated women, but it seems to play a smaller role for the less educated A study of the Two-Way Fixed Effects (TWFE) ...

Work experience has been found to be a key determinant of work and wages for educated women, but it seems to play a smaller role for the less educated ...

Since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, the UK has experienced persistently weak productivity and corporate investment alongside a sustained decline in corporate leverage. We use a large annual panel ...

Contents Work experience has been found to be a key determinant of work and wages for educated women, but it seems to play a smaller role for the less educated. For them, welfare, tax credits and ...