We show that how countries disburse tax credits matters for economic incidence by exploiting reform to the disbursement of ...

The Frisch labor supply elasticity plays a key role in many economic policy debates, but its magnitude remains controversial.

A panel of scientific experts is set to provide education policy makers with advice on strategic and emerging issues.

This paper estimates the responsiveness of retirement saving to tax incentives for employees in Great Britain.

The budget coming up in a few weeks will be one of the big moments for Labour to set out their policy agenda.

The Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson, has announced he will step down in summer 2025 to become Provost of Queen’s College, Oxford. The IFS would like to express its huge ...

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. Life expectancy gaps between gender and income ...

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 ...

Carl is Deputy Director of the IFS, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, an editor of the annual IFS Green Budget and a Director of the Pensions Review. His research includes issues around the ...