Background to the roleThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is Europe’s leading centre for research on the microeconomics of public policy. It is a politically independent registered educational char...

At this policy conference, researchers will present new evidence on the scale and causes of regional inequalities.

At this online event, IFS researchers will discuss how rising house prices shaped young people’s social mobility.

ESCoE will hold its annual conference, organised in partnership with the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), on 19-21 May 2026.

The spines on the OBR’s charts are a signal to the chancellor to pull all the levers to improve our growth prospects

A wide-reaching report makes recommendations about the future of pensions.

Measuring living standards using average household spending gives a starkly different picture of regional inequalities than using average income.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is delighted to announce that Helen Miller has been appointed as its next Director.

Gathering data on consumer prices and the products we’re really buying will become far more precise, giving a better picture of how we deal with rising costs.

We discuss the economic consequences of tariffs, why governments use them, and whether they actually achieve their intended goals.

We set out how air pollution (PM2.5) has changed across England and explore inequalities by ethnicity, income deprivation, region and age.

ESCoE will hold its annual conference, organised in partnership with the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), on 21-23 May 2025.

We describe the fiscal outlook and set out the unenviable but important choices – which could define the parliament – confronting Rachel Reeves.

We use 25 years of tax records for the Norwegian population to study the mobility of wealth over people’s lifetimes. We find considerable wealth mobility over the life cycle. To understand the underly...

Inflation rates soared over the period 2021-2023, driving down households’ real incomes in the UK and other countries. This column uses detailed data on price and spending patterns for groceries to assess the relative impacts of inflation across rich and poor households. Significant differences in grocery price inflation experienced by rich and poor households only emerge once the most disaggregated product definitions are used. Price increases were disproportionately large for individual varieties of products that were initially cheaper (‘cheapflation’), driving up inflation rates for worse-off households.