2017 Royal Economic Society Annual Conference

From 10 April at 10:00 to 12 April 2017 until 19:45

University of Bristol

<p>Social Sciences complex, 12 Priory Road, Bristol BS8 1TN</p>

Several IFS researchers will be presenting their work during this year's Royal Economic Society Annual Conference in Bristol.

The 2017 Royal Economic Society Annual Conference will be held at the University of Bristol on 10-12 April 2017.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies will be represented by a number of researchers presenting their work over the course of the conference:

Monday 10 April
13:30 - 15:00	Paul Johnson	Policy Plenary Session: "Post-Brexit Economics"

17:15 - 18:45	Christine Farquharson	Education Session 1: "The causal impacy of breakfast club provision on academic attainment"

17:15 - 18:45	Kate Smith	Tax and Public Policy Session 1: "Alcohol tax design"

Tuesday 11 April
09:00 - 10:30	Chris Belfield	Education Session 2: "Outside options and teacher retention"

09:00 - 10:30	Jonathan Shaw	Tax and Public Policy Session 2: "The dynamic effects of tax audits"

11:00 - 12:30	James Banks	Behavioural Session 3: "Is there a causal effect of education on decision-making? Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment"

11:00 - 12:30	Martin O'Connell	Tax and Public Policy Session 3: "How well targeted are soda taxes?"

15:45 - 17:15	Rachel Griffith	IO2: "Demand estimation with unobserved choice set heterogeneity"

Wednesday 12 April
09:00 - 10:30	Jonathan Cribb	Pensions and Retirement Session: "When governments introduce default options: the effect of automatic enrolment on pension saving in the United Kingdom"

13:45 - 15:15	Arun Advani	Junior Fellows Special Session: "Informal insurance and endogenous poverty traps"

13:45 - 15:15	Sonya Krutikova	MiSoC Special Session: Mental Health and Human Capital: "Maternal depression and child human capital development: a value-added approach"

For the full programme and to register, please visit the RES website.

Speakers

Arun Advani

Research Fellow University of Warwick

Arun is a Research Fellow at IFS, an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and a Commissioner at the Wealth Tax Commission.

James Banks

CPP Co-Director

James is Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Economics at Manchester, working on broad issues in the economics of retirement, savings and health.

Jonathan Cribb

Associate Director

Jonathan is an Associate Director and Head of Retirement, Savings and Ageing sector, focusing on pensions, savings and later-life economic activity.

Christine Farquharson

Associate Director

Christine's research examines inequalities in children's education and health, especially in the early education and childcare sector.

Rachel Griffith

CPP Co-Director, IFS Research Director

Rachel is Research Director and Professor at the University of Manchester. She was made a Dame for services to economic policy and education in 2021.

Paul Johnson

Director

Paul has been the Director of the IFS since 2011. He is also currently visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London.