Term: Papers

This report argues that, on intergenerational justice grounds, the British government should be following France’s lead over banning domestic flights with a rail equivalent journey of 4.5 hours or less, by encouraging greater domestic train travel rather than air travel on mainland Britain. Key findings: Travel by train is seven times more environmentally friendly than… Read more »

  This report uses data from the Wealth & Assets Survey in order to look at the reasons behind the inability for young people to be able to save. Key findings: Young people would like to invest and save in property, but over the last decade the proportion of young people with zero property wealth… Read more »

This research is an update to IF’s 2012 pensioner millionaires research, and looks at pensioner wealth according to latest available data from the Office for National Statistic’s Wealth and Assets Survey. Key Findings: Great Britain now has more than 3 million over-65s living in millionaire households. In 2008/10, there were 846,000 over-65s living in households… Read more »

This report, co-produced with the Social Market Foundation, investigates the economic and moral questions surrounding how to share the costs of the Net Zero transition between generations. The paper explores how the following factors shape policymaking decisions on how much we should be spending on the Net Zero transition: Moral attitudes to future generations Prospects… Read more »

This report investigates how the government has got around a manifesto promise not to raise taxes. The paper explains how the government has instead introduced taxation by stealth which is falling largely on younger people. It explains how younger generations are being stung by a combination of: Fiscal drag The freezing of income tax thresholds… Read more »

One of the core aims of the Intergenerational Foundation is to address the housing crisis facing younger and future generations. Over the past decade we have investigated how different generations “consume” or “occupy” housing and why change is needed.  We have:  Quantified the unfair subsidies given to landlords and our research led to policy changes,… Read more »

This short pamphlet explains why the “discount rate” is an intergenerational fairness issue and how the setting of it can tie the hands of younger and future generations. We are grateful to the Young Liberals, the Young Fabians, and the Young Greens, for contributing both to the pamphlet and to the debate that surrounded it.… Read more »

The Intergenerational Foundation will be 10 years old in 2021 and this research report investigates how young people have fared over the past decade as well as during COVID-19. We are most grateful to Curtis Banks for supporting this research:   Key findings: Young people have lived through a decade of intergenerational unfairness, with COVID-19… Read more »