IFS celebrates a double win, taking 'Think Tank of the Year' and 'Best Publication' honours.

We study the reasons for rising in-work poverty in the 25 years up to the pandemic.

Personal tax thresholds have been frozen since 2023 or earlier, meaning inflation erodes their real value. Extending freezes ...

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This online event will present new IFS research on cognitive decline in older age and its impact on financial choices and ...

We study how exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) affects young children’s accumulation of cognitive and ...

At this online event IFS researchers will present the findings of a new report on trends for people in their 50s and 60s over ...

This study experimentally assesses the effects of temporary wage subsidies on employment in North Macedonia. Wage subsidies ...

We argue the change in individuals’ Lorenz ordinates—their positions in the Lorenz curve—is informative about economic ...

The level of the state pension is increased each April in line with the ‘triple lock’: the highest of CPI inflation, average earnings growth or 2.5%. The September CPI inflation figure, which feeds ...

There is much speculation about the future of the ‘two-child limit’, a policy which means that low-income families with children do not receive additional means-tested benefits for any third or ...