Announcing Generation New Era: the first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years. It will study 30,000 children born in 2026 across the four nations of the UK. Watch out for upcoming opportunities for researchers and other stakeholders to engage with the study team via @clscohorts.bsky.social

NEW: How aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks affect household income dynamics. 📗 Read @manoloarellano.bsky.social, Martín Almuzara, @richardblundell.bsky.social and Stéphane Bonhomme's new cemmap working paper: ifs.org.uk/publications... #econsky

New from Juliana Londoño-Vélez (UCLA) and Javier Ávila-Mahecha: Based on Colombia’s long experience with wealth taxes, a new study reveals both promise and peril. Read our new article here: microeconomicinsights.org/taxing-wealt...

With better enforcement, smarter design, and global cooperation, governments may yet find a way to tax wealth without seeing some of it vanish.

A very insightful Stone Centre public lecture and Q&A on the effects of higher education on #inequality. Huge thanks to Susan @dynarski.bsky.social , @gavin-kelly.bsky.social, Bethan Staton and all involved. Stay tuned for a link to the full video.

🎓 Book your #virtualtix for the #DeatonReview session at #RES2025 Mon 30 June! By @nuffieldfoundation.org & @richardblundell.bsky.social 🎙️ Kate Smith & Sir Tim Besley @LSE and Paul Johnson & Xiaowei Xu @theifs.bsky.social 🪑Baroness Sharon White 🔗 bit.ly/47D8h4y #EconSky #EconConf

This year's @resmedia.bsky.social Conference features a special session on the IFS Deaton Review: Inequalities in the 21st Century, with @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social‬, @xiaoweixu.bsky.social‬, Kate Smith and Tim Besley and chaired by Dame Sharon White. Find out more: ifs.org.uk/news/ifs-dea...

🚨 Last chance! Register by 8 June for #RES2025, 30 June–2 July @unibirmingham.bsky.social 🌞 🎤 Keynotes: Bonhomme, Iriberri, Greenstone, Morgan 🤖 AI/ML sessions + top UK policy orgs 👶 Childcare | 🤝 Networking | 🚄 Easy travel 🔗 Book: bit.ly/47D8h4y 🗓️ Programme: bit.ly/4mFpiSJ #EconSky

"In a geopolitically uncertain world and after more than a decade of low productivity growth, the UK needs to rethink its economic strategy." Today, we're publishing a collection of expert policy insights ahead of the multi-year Spending Review conclusion: buff.ly/DAlcNo5

📊 #IFSSatStat: Sure Start has generated widespread, long-lasting benefits for children in education. Access to a Sure Start centre from birth significantly improved children’s educational attainment, with benefits lasting at least until GCSEs (age 16).

The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights | The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead. microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...

The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights | The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead. microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...

📢 Don’t miss the #RES2025 early bird deadline. Book by 16 May for a discount! Thanks to @nuffieldfoundation.org & @richardblundell.bsky.social for a great #DeatonReview session. Join us at @unibirmingham.bsky.social on 30 June for what’s set to be a highlight! Register👉 bit.ly/47D8h4y #EconSky

The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead. Read here: microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-bet...

New from @davidautor.bsky.social, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons & Bryan Seegmiller: Technological change transforms economies and labor markets, reshaping the types of jobs that are available, the wages they pay, and the skills they require

The adverse effects of trade and globalization have become politically salient in a way that many of the other determinants of inequality have not. | Trade and Inequality | The IFS-Deaton Review | all open access | academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

We are delighted to announce that @helenmiller.bsky.social has been appointed as the next IFS Director, following on from @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social in July 2025. Find out more:

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Labor Market Inequality and the Changing Life Cycle Profile of Male and Female Wages" by Richard Blundell, Hugo Lopez, and James P. Ziliak. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Great set of papers on inequality in LAC covering a wide range of issues.

The Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR), a review inspired by the UK IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities on Latin America's persistent high inequality, has had its first major output published as a supplement in Oxford Open Economics.

The Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR), a review inspired by the UK IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities on Latin America's persistent high inequality, has had its first major output published as a supplement in Oxford Open Economics.

This week the Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review has published a supplement in Oxford Open Economics! IFS' @richardblundell.bsky.social, Sonya Krutikova, @bancalaria.bsky.social & @papiteide.bsky.social have contributed chapters to the review. 📗Find out more:

It was time to donate again to the 🇺🇦 Kyiv School of Economics led by the amazing @tymofiibrik.bsky.social and @mylovanov.bsky.social 🇺🇦 If you want to support KSE in these tough times 👇 foundation.kse.ua/en

New MI article ‘calls for a re-evaluation of occupational licensing regulations in professional service industries, to ensure these policies do not restrict entry into the industry for individuals who have fulfilled the necessary educational requirements’. microeconomicinsights.org/private-mono...

New MI article ‘calls for a re-evaluation of occupational licensing regulations in professional service industries, to ensure these policies do not restrict entry into the industry for individuals who have fulfilled the necessary educational requirements’. microeconomicinsights.org/private-mono...

To support increased productivity, helping children growing up in deprivation do better is an obvious target, but not enough. Social skills are also increasingly important for job success. By @Richardblundell.bsky.social Rachel Griffith & @SandraMcNally.bsky.social acss.org.uk/policies...

The adverse effects of trade and globalization have become politically salient in a way that many of the other determinants of inequality have not. | Trade and Inequality | The IFS-Deaton Review | all open access | academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

‘..historical perspectives stress the interplay of a range of forces - standard economic concerns such as technology and structural change in the economy, also changes in social structures, ideology, and the allocation of political power’ | IFS-Deaton Review | academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

Perceptions and preferences for redistribution | Stefanie Stantcheva | IFS Deaton Review | Oxford Open Economics academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

‘Monopolies always raise concerns about high prices, low innovation and—if the monopoly position may be challenged—possible abuses of dominant position against potential rivals. Tech giants are no exception.’ Jean Tirole | IFS Deaton Review academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

The adverse effects of trade and globalization have become politically salient in a way that many of the other determinants of inequality have not. | Dimensions of Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review | academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

The rise of economic inequality in the UK over the past four decades raises serious questions about the state of political equality in Britain. |Political inequality | Ben Ansell, Jane Gingrich | IFS Deaton Review | Oxford Open Economics academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

Dimensions of Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review @TheIFS The whole evidence volume of the Review, including all the remarkable articles examining the many dimensions of inequality, published open access by OUP at academic.oup.com/ooec/issue/3...

Microeconomic Insights: distilling research for public debate. Microeconomic Insights is a home for accessible summaries of high quality microeconomic research which informs the public about microeconomic issues that are, or should be, in the public’s eye. microeconomicinsights.org

For those interested in inequalities, the Deaton Review offers a wealth of insights - well beyond the traditional income /wealth inequality levels discussion. All free to download on the Oxford University Press.

There is overwhelming evidence that the education system in England leaves too many young people behind. Education inequalities | Christine Farquharson, Sandra McNally, Imran Tahir | IFS Deaton Review | ⁦‬⁩ academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

The UK remains a very unequal economy in terms of labour market outcomes. | Inequality and the labour market | IFS Deaton Review | Oxford Open Economics academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

“workers believe their outside option is much closer to their current wage than it actually is” | Worker Beliefs About Outside Options | Simon Jäger, Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille, Benjamin Schoefer | Microeconomic Insights | microeconomicinsights.org/worker-belie...

Political inequality | Tim Besley | IFS Deaton Review | Oxford Open Economics academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

Inequalities – the Marshall Paley Lecture. Richard Blundell takes a deep dive into inequality and how to tackle it, drawing on the IFS-Deaton Review. The closing event at this year's Festival of Economics at Bristol University. Listen here on.soundcloud.com/8ytdxxYhJikH...

This is such a great piece of research from @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social. Convincing causal evidence that youth club closures in London led to more teenagers engaging in criminal behaviour (around 1 extra offender for every 500 local teenagers) and worse educational outcomes at age 16.

NEW PODCAST: Inheritance tax rises and the Budget: who's affected? Paul Johnson, Helen Miller and David Sturrock discuss the inheritance tax changes in the Budget in our new podcast. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: ifs.org.uk/articles/inh...

Top income inequality and tax policy | IFS Deaton Review | Oxford Open Economics academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

‘Our framework also stresses how new tasks created by AI could be quite transformative for the labour market and reduce, rather than increase, inequality.’ A task-based approach to inequality | Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo | The IFS Deaton Review | academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

‘And there is the intriguing, and possibly very consequential, finding that when people espouse different philosophies or politics, they also tend to disagree over facts.’ Angus Deaton | What is wrong with inequality? | IFS Deaton Review academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

Many useful resources on inequalities here

This special issue is the second in a two-part series on the evolution of labour market and disposable income inequalities over recent decades in Europe and North America. | Changing Labour Market and Income Inequalities: Part Two onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755890...

Inequalities – the Marshall Paley Lecture. Richard Blundell takes a deep dive into inequality and how to tackle it, drawing on the IFS-Deaton Review. The closing event at this year's Festival of Economics at Bristol University. Listen here on.soundcloud.com/8ytdxxYhJikH...