Oxford University Press publishes the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities

18th July 2024

Oxford University Press has today published the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities in a special edition of its journal Oxford Open Economics.

The multi-year IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities, launched in 2019 and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, is a rich and comprehensive treatment of this complex, multifaceted and important topic, involving many of the top academic minds from across the world.

The collection covers a multitude of topics including income and wealth, health, political, geographic, racial and gender inequalities, and the role of early childhood, families, education, the world of work, firms, trade and globalisation, tax, welfare and public services.

This world-leading evidence, now published in Oxford Open Economics, will serve as the basis for understanding and further study of this topic for years to come.

The second phase of the report, being published in the next year, will focus on providing comprehensive and practical policy guidance. The conclusions of the review will not only be useful and usable for the UK in the 21st century, but also be applicable to governments across the developed world.

Professor Sir Angus Deaton, who leads the project, said:

"From the beginning of the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities, we knew that we did not have the knowledge to provide anything like authoritative answers to some of the key questions surrounding inequalities by ourselves. Alongside our distinguished multidisciplinary panel, we asked other leading academics to tell us what they thought, and to tell us what others in their fields have thought and argued about. These articles and commentaries are the result; they provide a remarkable range of evidence and of arguments. We are delighted that today these essential outputs from the review have been brought together and published by the Oxford University Press."

The IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities