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IFS Deputy Director Carl Emmerson gave evidence to the Work and Pensions Select Committee today as part of their inquiry into the benefit cap.

Since 2013 the government has placed a cap on the amount that some working-age families can receive in benefits. In May 2018 60,000 households saw their benefits reduced by the cap. The Government’s objectives for the cap are “improving work incentives, promoting fairness between those on out of work benefits and taxpayers and delivering savings”. The Work and Pensions Select Committee wants to understand how well the benefit cap is achieving ...

Richard Blundell, Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the IFS, is to give the keynote speech at the Copenhagen Business School's launch of their Business in Society Platform on Inequality. His address is on ‘The dynamics of income and earnings inequality’ and will be followed by a discussion. 

The Inequality Platform run from 2018 to 2023 and aims to address the causes and consequences of inequality from a Danish, European, and global level. The Inequality Platform brings together researchers from four CBS departments – DBP, ECON, INT, and ...

On 26 September, IFS Associate Director David Phillips was in the hot seat at the Health Show UK 2018 to talk about social care funding. He was quizzed by Victoria Macdonald, Channel 4 News's health and social care correspondent, and health and social care professionals about:

- What has happened to social care funding in recent years, and why this may pose a problem;

- What factors may affect the funding needed for social care in the future;

- The options and issues for raising more revenues from people receiving care, or via taxation or compulsory insurance;

- And the tensions between ...

IFS Research Economist, Laura ven der Erve, spoke at the fourth annual Women in Economics conference, held in Cambridge at Gonville and Caius College.

The speakers at the event were:

• Victoria Bateman, Director of Studies in Economics at Caius
• Hannah Peaker, Chief of Staff at the Women's Equality Party
• Laura Van der Erve, Research Economist at the Institute of Fiscal Studies
• Melissa Davey, Director of Independent Evaluation at the Bank of England
• Carolina Alves, Joan Robinson Research Fellow in Heterodox Economics at Girton College
• Shyamoli Patel, Project Manager at ...