New website, Microeconomic Insights, launched - hosted by IFS

Distilling microeconomics research into direct policy implications will be the focus of a new kind of blog developed by researchers at University College London, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Princeton University, Harvard University, London School of Economics Northwestern University, University of California, San Diego,  University of Manchester and Yale University.

Microeconomic Insights, which was launched on 3 January while economists gathered at the American Economic Association’s annual conference in San Francisco, will bridge the gap between academia and policy by publishing short, non-technical summaries of economic research for a public policy audience.

The editorial board includes IFS's Orazio Attanasio, Richard Blundell and Rachel Griffith, as well as Joseph Altonji, Thomas Dewitt Cuyler Professor of Economics at Yale University, Oriana Bandiera, professor of economics at the London School of Economics, Roger Gordon, professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego, Ariel Pakes, Steven McArthur Heller Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Robert Porter, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics at Northwestern University and Steven Redding, Harold T. Shapiro ’64 Professor in Economics at Princeton.

Support for the website is provided by Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, the Economic and Social Research Council (via the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Polict at IFS and the Institute's Impact Acceleration Account), the University of Southern California Dornsife Center For Economic and Social Research and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.