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04 April 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Financing constraints and unemployment: evidence from the great recession
This paper exploits the differential financing needs across industrial sectors and provides strong empirical evidence that financing constraints of small businesses are important in explaining...
28 March 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The provision of relative performance feedback information: an experimental analysis of performance and happiness (joint with Nagore Iriberri)
This paper studies the effect of providing relative performance feedback information on individuals' performance and affective response, under both piece-rate and flat-rate incentives. In a...
24 March 2011
The Drill Hall
Post-Budget Briefing 2011
The presentation will provide an opportunity to hear a considered view of the Chancellor's announcements from Institute staff.
23 March 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Matching models of the marriage market: theory and empirical applications
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice
A cemmap masterclass by Pierre-Andre Chiappori (Columbia).
22 March 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
mini-workshop & cemmap seminar: partial identification and random sets
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice
21 March 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Mextax: a tax micro-simulator for Mexico and its application to the 2010 Mexican tax reforms
As developing countries attempt to improve public services and develop redistributive transfer policies, there is a pressing need to increase government revenues, through both direct and indirect...
17 March 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Launch of OECD 'Pensions at a Glance: 2011'
Many countries, including the UK, have increased pension ages in the face of population ageing and longer lives. Some have introduced an automatic link between pensions and life expectancy....
14 March 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Crime and the decriminalization of cannabis: evidence from a localized policing experiment" (joint with Imran Rasul and Jerome Adda)
07 March 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Impact and cost-benefit analysis of Every Child a Reader
Every Child a Reader is a package of early literacy interventions aiming to tackle reading problems among 6- and 7-year-olds deemed to have the lowest reading ability. The policy has been rolled...
28 February 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Demand shocks as productivity shocks" (joint with Kjetil Storesletten and Yan Bai)
We propose a theory of exchange of goods built on top of a neoclassical growth model where increases in the willingness to spend by consumers or firms (demand) translate into measured increases in...
21 February 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Measuring gains in equality of opportunity given many diverse circumstances: US 1960-2000
A new approach to evaluating changes in Equality of Opportunity is introduced which permits the examination of the degree of dependence of child outcomes on many circumstances. Its advantages over...
17 February 2011
G2 Lecture Theatre, SOAS (main building)
Social interactions
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice
This masterclass will examine identification problems that arise with social interactions, and will study the implications of these problems for decision making. The identification analysis will...
14 February 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Are household surveys like tax forms: evidence from the self employed
09 February 2011
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS
Policy analysis with incredible certitude (a Leverhulme Lecture by Charles Manski)
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice
Analyses of public policy regularly express certitude about the consequences of alternative policy choices. Yet policy predictions often are fragile, with conclusions resting on critical...
02 February 2011
The British Museum
IFS Green Budget 2011
The Green Budget will focus on the policy challenges confronting the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It will be produced in collaboration with Barclays Capital and Barclays Wealth.
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