IFS to launch renewed ESRC research centre

Published on 12 August 2015

The IFS has received funding from the ESRC for the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP). The ESRC has confirmed funding for a further five years for our prestigious research centre, from 2015 to 2020. Funding for five PhD scholarships to be associated with CPP has been awarde...

The IFS has received funding from the ESRC for the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP). The ESRC has confirmed funding for a further five years for our prestigious research centre, from 2015 to 2020. Funding for five PhD scholarships to be associated with CPP has been awarded to UCL’s Doctoral Training Centre. The overarching objectives of the new
Centre are to:

make major scientific progress in understanding how individuals and firms behave and how they react to government policy;
have substantial impact on policy in the fields of taxation, labour market, education, welfare, pensions, and public finances;
build technical and policy capacity in a new generation of highly-skilled researchers.

The Centre will be launched at an event on 15 October. External speakers will include Jane Elliott (ESRC), Alan Auerbach (Berkeley), Andrew Dilnot (UK Statistical Society and Nuffield College) and Dave Ramsden (HMT).