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IFS organises and participates in a large number of conferences, seminars and briefings each year. If you would like to receive emails with details of forthcoming events, please sign up here. Unless otherwise specified, the venue for the conferences is the Institute for Fiscal Studies (see address details and directions).

For details of currently advertised cemmap training courses, see the cemmap website. The courses are designed to be of particular benefit to economists and social scientists in the public and private sectors wanting to know how to use microeconometrics and microdata to inform policy making.

IFS internal seminars and IFS-STICERD public economics seminars are listed on the right-hand side of this page.

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31 May 2012
London
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At this briefing, IFS researchers will launch the findings of their new report, entitled ‘Reforming Council Tax Benefit’. This research was funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
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11 June 2012
Institute for Fiscal Studies
18 June 2012
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Raffaelle Miniaci University of Brescia
25 June 2012
UCL, Christopher Ingold Auditorium
This conference is organised by EDePo@IFS, UCL, 3iE and INET/ECI (INstitute for New Economic Thinking / Early Childhood INterventions.
11 July 2012
Institute for Fiscal Studies
14 September 2012
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
The conference will focus on the relationship between HMRC and the taxpayer, addressing key policy issues.
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This public economics seminar series is organised jointly by IFS and STICERD.

23 May 2012
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Emmanuel Saez University of California, Berkeley
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The Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap) at IFS runs a range of conferences, workshops and masterclasses. For the full list of these and its programme of training courses, see the cemmap website.

10 October 2012
London
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice
This class will review approaches aimed at eliminating biases due to the presence of measurement error in covariates. Special emphasis will be given to consistent methods that circumvent...
08 November 2012
UCL, Roberts Bulding
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice
This series of lectures to be given by Thomas Sargent will draw on material from "Recursive Macroeconomic Theory" (Lars Lunqvist, and Thomas Sargent, 2nd Ed, MIT Press, 2004).Please note
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PEPA is a node of the National Centre for Research Methods. Its events are designed for policy makers, programme evaluators, decision makers and researchers. For the full list of events and more information about PEPA, visit the PEPA website.

29 May 2012
UCL Economics Department
This course has been jointly organised with the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap).
21 June 2012
Institute for Fiscal Studies
This course will consider theoretical and computational issues in moving beyond the familiar single-state, single-spell duration model to estimate the impact of policy intervention. It will consider the use of left-censored spells, time variation in the control variables, estimation of medium- to long-run effects, and endogenous treatments.
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The following links should give you any extra information you may need with regard to IFS events.

CEMMAP events
24 May 2012 - 25 May 2012
Training Course
29 May 2012 - 01 Jun 2012
cemmap/PEPA Training Course