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IFS Seminar

Previous IFS Seminars are listed here.

06 February 2012
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Bogus models and spurious quantification (John Kay)
John Kay
This is an IFS lunchtime seminar, and is organised by the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP).
28 November 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Taxation and international migration of top earners: evidence from the Foreigner Tax Scheme in Denmark
Camille Landais Stanford University
This paper analyzes the eff ects of income taxation on the international migration of top earners using the Danish preferential foreigner tax scheme. This scheme, introduced in 1991, allows...
07 November 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Meeting UK carbon budgets: challenges and progress
David Kennedy Committee on Climate Change
03 October 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Electoral impacts of quality improvements in basic education: evidence from Brazilian municipalities
Sergio Firpo Sao Paulo School of Economics
School accountability systems that establish the adoption of incentives for teachers and school managers usually impact students' performance. However, in many circumstances, school accountability...
20 June 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Measuring living standards with income and consumption: evidence from the UK
Mike Brewer ISER, Essex University and Cormac O'Dea
13 June 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Utility and happiness
Miles Kimball Michigan
This seminar will discuss several papers on the issue of whether 'happiness' measures in surveys can be seen directly as measures of economic utility.
06 June 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Universal contributory earnings-linked public pensions: a Canadian policy perspective
Jon Kesselman Simon Fraser University
Current and growing deficiencies in many workers' ability to maintain their accustomed living standards in retirement have evoked varied proposals for reform of Canada's retirement income system....
23 May 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Do the rich really save more? Evidence from lifetime earnings and retirement resources in England" (joint with Carl Emmerson and Gemma Tetlow)
Antoine Bozio
We use a unique dataset, containing individual survey data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing linked to administrative data on earnings histories, to construct measures of lifetime...
09 May 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Habit formation and income variability
Xiaoying Liu UCL
11 April 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Who pays for occupational pensions?
Ola Lotherington Vestad Frisch Centre
04 April 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Financing constraints and unemployment: evidence from the great recession
Burcu Duygan-Bump Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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)
Ghazala Azmat Pompeu Fabra
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...
21 March 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Mextax: a tax micro-simulator for Mexico and its application to the 2010 Mexican tax reforms
David Phillips
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...
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)
Brendon McConnell UCL
07 March 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Impact and cost-benefit analysis of Every Child a Reader
Haroon Chowdry and Ellen Greaves
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)
Jose Victor Rius Rull University of Minnesota
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
Gordon Anderson University of Toronto
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...
14 February 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Are household surveys like tax forms: evidence from the self employed
Erik Hurst Chicago Booth
17 January 2011
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Why do college educated workers migrate more?
Michael Amior
College educated workers are known to migrate more between US cities than the low skilled. This may be due to differences in returns to migration, or differences in constraints. The relative...
06 December 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Understanding the size and profitability of firms: the role of a biological factor", joint with Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota)
Luigi Guiso European University Institute
29 November 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Are young people's educational outcomes linked to their sense of control?
Deborah Ann Cobb-Clark Institute of Applied Economics and Social Research, Melbourne
15 November 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Goods versus characteristics: revealed preference procedures for nested models
This paper compares the goods and characteristics models of the consumer within a traditional demand framework. We examine the nonparametric revealed preference conditions for the goods and...
01 November 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The location of intellectual property and corporate taxes
Helen Miller
04 October 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The effects of the financial crisis on older adults in England
Rowena Crawford and Carl Emmerson
27 September 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Why are they so insensitive? an empirical evaluation of subprime credit card borrowing
Sule Alan University of Cambridge
28 June 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Estimating dynamic policy effects from multi-state duration models of employment
John Ham University of Maryland
In this paper we examine the employment dynamics of disadvantaged single mothers in the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) while correcting for seam bias in reported employment status.
14 June 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Revolving door lobbyists
Mirko Draca UCL and CEP
We study how ex-government officials use the revolving door to cash in on the personal connections acquired during periods of public service. Lobbyists with past working experience in the office...
17 May 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Starting school and leaving welfare: the impact of public education on lone parents' welfare receipt
Mike Brewer ISER, Essex University and Claire Crawford
Childcare costs are often viewed as one of the biggest barriers to work, particularly among lone parents on low incomes. Children in England are typically eligible to start school - and thus...
19 April 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The dynamics of firms' product portfolios in response to international competition: an empirical assessment
Claire LeLarge CREST
We rely on a new firm level dataset containing detailed information about the structure of production of a large sample of French manufacturing firms to investigate whether the observed aggregate...
12 April 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program produced its outcomes
James Heckman University of Chicago
The Perry Preschool program was a randomized social experiment with long run followup that supplemented the early environments of disadvantaged African American children. Evidence from the program...
29 March 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Recent research on wealth and retirement in the United States
Michael Palumbo Federal Reserve
24 March 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Short-run subsidies and long-run adoption of new health products: experimental evidence form Kenya
Pascaline Dupas UCLA
Short-run, targeted subsidies for health products are common in poor countries. How do they affect long-run adoption? Standard economic theory predicts that they may increase long-run adoption...
08 March 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Why are married men working so much?
John Knowles University of Southampton
08 February 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The welfare gains of financial liberalization: capital accumulation and idiosyncratic risks (with Antonio Antunes)
Tiago Cavalcanti University of Cambridge
From a simple (theoretical) growth argument, financial integration enables capitalscarce countries to raise capital inflows with positive effects on investment and on the speed of convergence. We...
01 February 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Inequality double bill
James Browne and Liam Wren-Lewis Oxford University
There will be two presentations at this seminar:Isolating the effect of tax and benefit reform on inequality and work incentives (James Browne joint with Stuart Adam) Accounting for changes in...
25 January 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Mortgage innovation and the foreclosure boom
Dean Corbae University of Texas
How much of the recent rise in foreclosures can be explained by the introduction of low downpayment, delayed amortization mortgage contracts? We present a model where heterogeneous households...
09 November 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The role of location in evaluating racial wage disparity in the US
Dan A. Black University of Chicago
A joint seminar with the Centre for Longitudinal Studies.
26 October 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Using policy reforms to estimate the impact of tuition fees and student aid on university participation
Gill Wyness
In this work we estimate the impacts of upfront fees and maintenance grants on UK higher education participation. We use cross-sectional LFS data from 1992-2005, which covers a period of great...
12 October 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Stimulus effects of the 2009 UK VAT rate cut (with Janjala Chirakijja, Melanie Luhrmann and Cormac O'Dea)
Thomas Crossley University of Cambridge
We look for evidence of effects of the VAT rate cut.
05 October 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Dynamic optimal redistributive taxation with endogenous retirement
Jean-Baptiste Michau LSE
While the participation decision is discrete in a static context, i.e. to work or not to work, such is not the case in a dynamic context where workers choose the fraction of their lifetime that...
28 September 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Benefit duration, unemployment duration and employment stability: a regression discontinuity approach (with Marco Caliendo and Arne Uhlendorff)
Konstantinos Tatsiramos IZA
The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit...
21 September 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Identifying sibling effects on teenage risky behavior
Sarah Cattan Chicago
A rich literature in psychology suggests that teenagers may be influenced by the behavior of older siblings. A number of studies have found substantial correlations in risky behavior between...
07 September 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
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Gemma Tetlow
20 July 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Collective models of household consumption behaviour: the revealed preference approach
Jeroen Sabbe KU Leuven
06 July 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Supply vs demand-side rationing in developing country health insurance: evidence from Colombia's "Regimen Subsidiado" (joint with Grant Miller and Diana Pinto)
Marcos Vera-Hernandez University College London
29 June 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Evaluation and design of in-work benefits
Monica Costa Dias Institute for Fiscal Studies and Jonathan Shaw
08 June 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
IQ, Achievement and Personality (with Lex Borghans and James J. Heckman)
Bart Golsteyn Maastricht University
03 June 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Empirical estimates of the impact of a fat tax
Martin O'Connell
27 April 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The good, the bad and the average: evidence on the scale and nature of ability peer effects in schools
Victor Lavy Hebrew University and Royal Holloway University
21 April 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Technology diffusion and productivity growth in health care (with Douglas Staiger)
Jon Skinner Dartmouth University
06 April 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The effect of education on adult mortality and health: evidence from the UK (joint with Heather Royer)
Damon Clark University of Florida
30 March 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Paul Samuelson versus a monkey
Ian Crawford University of Oxford
23 March 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Credit lines
Jose-Victor Rios-Rull University of Minnesota
16 March 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Welfare reform and its long term consequences for America's poor
James Ziliak University of Kentucky
You can download the paper for this seminar here.
02 March 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Non linear contracting and endogenous buyer power between manufacturers and retailers : identification and estimation on differentiated products
Pierre Dubois Toulouse and CEPR
26 January 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Estimating demand system in Mexico
David Phillips
12 January 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Incumbent's price response to new entry: the case of Japanese supermarkets (joint with Daiji Kawaguchi)
Naohito Abe Hitotsubashi University, Japan
05 January 2009
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Blissful ignorance? evidence from a natural experiment on the effect of individual feedback on performance
Imran Rasul University College London
15 December 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
"An experimental evaluation of tax evasion and tax enforcement in Denmark (joint with Henrik Kleven, Martin Knudsen, Claus Kreiner, and Soren Pedersen)
Emmanuel Saez University of California, Berkeley
08 December 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
TBC
David Phillips
01 December 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
MSC dissertation series
James Browne, Haroon Chowdry and Luke Sibieta
24 November 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
When is it better to have two cheap, noisy measures rather than one expensive, accurate one?
Martin Browning Nuffield College, Oxford and Thomas Crossley University of Cambridge
17 November 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
TBC
Mike Brewer ISER, Essex University, Cormac O'Dea and Gillian Paull
10 November 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Union densities and varieties of coverage: the anatomy of union wage effects in Germany
Bernd Fitzenberger Albert-Ludwigs-University
03 November 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Moving back home: insurance against labor market risk
Greg Kaplan
27 October 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Europe's internal market at fifty: over the hill?
Bas Straathof CPB Netherlands
20 October 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The impact of the UK New Deal for lone parents on benefit receipt
Jeffrey Smith University of Michigan
06 October 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Can subgroup-specific mean treatment effects explain heterogeneity in welfare reform effects?
Hilary Hoynes University of California, Davis
30 June 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Multi-family households in a labour supply model: a calibration method with an application to Poland
Michal Myck DIW-Berlin
23 June 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Workfare for Incapacity Benefits Claimants : A Cost-benefit analysis of Pathways to Work
Stuart Adam, Antoine Bozio and Carl Emmerson
16 June 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Intergenerational education mobility among the children of Canadian immigrants
Miles Corak Carleton University, Canada
09 June 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The average outcome and inequality effects of segregation in the presence of social spillovers
Bryan Graham University of California, Berkeley
02 June 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Do agglomeration economies reduce the sensitivity of firm location to tax differentials?
Mario Jametti York University, Toronto
23 May 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
International evidence on sticky consumption growth
Christopher Carroll Johns Hopkins
19 May 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
First-time home buyers and residential investment volatility
Martin Gervais University of Southampton
12 May 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
What happened to the volatility of household consumption in the US between 1970 and 2005?
Olga Gorbachev University of Edinburgh
28 April 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Are fiscal incentives towards charitable giving efficient?
Camille Landais Paris School of Economics
21 April 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Using genetic lotteries within families to examine the causal impact of poor health on academic achievement
Steven Lehrer Queen's University
14 April 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
A tale of two coutries - unions, closures and growth in Britain and Norway
Harald Dale-Olsen Institute for Social Research, Norway
07 April 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Deconstructing lifecycle expenditure
Erik Hurst University of Chicago
31 March 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Evaluating the effects of the Education Maintenance Allowance using administrative data
Haroon Chowdry
10 March 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
How can the transfer system affect the working behavior of low skilled men? Evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model
Peter Haan Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
03 March 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Technology and the demand for skill: an analysis of within and between firm differences
John Abowd Cornell University
25 February 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Public policies against global warming
Hans-Werner Sinn German Institute fir Economic Research
11 February 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Health and knowledge: the UK measles, mumps and rubella controversy
Dan Anderberg Royal Holloway
04 February 2008
Institute for Fiscal Studies
VAT coordination arrangements in the EU (provisional topic)
Sijbren Cnossen University of Maastricht
10 December 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Is marriage always good for children? evidence from families affected by incarceration
David Neumark UCI
IFS internal seminar.
03 December 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Child care provision: semiparametric evidence from a randomized experiment in Mexico
Pierre Dubois Toulouse and CEPR
26 November 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Children's reading and math skills: the influence of family caring
Robert Michael University of Chicago and IoE
19 November 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The long term consequences of resource based specialization
Guy Michaels LSE
An IFS internal seminar.
05 November 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Outsourcing, unemployment and welfare policy
Christian Keuschnigg University of St Gallen
An IFS internal seminar.
29 October 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Household shocks and child schooling and work in Colombia
Emla Fitzsimons
An IFS internal seminar.
24 September 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Estimating a dynamic adverse selection model: labor force experience and the changing gender earnings gap (with George-Levi Gayle)
Limor Golan Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon
An IFS internal seminar.
25 June 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Administrative data and ethnic parity in Jobcentre Plus programmes NB: open to IFS staff, Research Fellows and Associates only
Jonathan Shaw
An IFS internal seminar.
11 June 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Opening the black box of intra-household decision-making:theory and non-parametric empirical tests of general collective consumption models
Frederic Vermeulen Tilburg University
An IFS internal seminar.
25 May 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Why Has House Price Dispersion Gone up?
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh NYU
An IFS internal seminar.
21 May 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Revenue tariff reform
Peter Neary Oxford University
An IFS internal seminar.
14 May 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Preliminary evidence on bankruptcy reform, the supply of credit and the response of card borrowers in the U.S
Austan Goolsbee University of Chicago
An IFS internal seminar.
23 April 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The welfare cost of asymmetric information: evidence from the UK annuity market (with Liran Einav, Stanford & NBER and Paul Scrimpf, MIT)
Amy Finkelstein MIT and NBER
An IFS internal seminar.
16 April 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
TBC
Robert Hall Stanford University
An IFS internal seminar.
19 March 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
TBC
Tim Beatty UBC
An IFS internal seminar.
12 March 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Family Income and Tertiary Education Attendance across the EU
Vincent Vandenberghe UCL, Belgium
An IFS internal seminar.
05 March 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The optimal grouping of commodities for indirect taxation
Stephane Gauthier ENSAE, CREST, Paris
An IFS internal seminar.
26 February 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Relaxing Constraints with Compensation: A win-win policy for environment and poverty in China?
Ben Groom SOAS
IFS internal seminar
12 February 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Social Security Programs in Life-Cycle Models with Self-Control Problems
Alessandro Bucciol University of Padova
An IFS internal seminar.
29 January 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Measuring the Individual-Level Effects of Access to Credit: Evidence from Payday Loans (joint with Paige Skiba, UC-Berkeley)
Jeremy Tobacman Nuffield College, Oxford
An IFS internal seminar.
22 January 2007
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Does fertility respond to financial incentives? Evidence from UK welfare reform (with Mike Brewer, IFS)
Sarah Smith Centre for Market and Public Organisation
An internal seminar.
09 October 2006
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Saving Gateway Evaluation
Carl Emmerson, Gemma Tetlow and Matthew Wakefield University of Bologna
An IFS internal seminar.
02 October 2006
Institute for Fiscal Studies
In Work Credit Evaluation
Mike Brewer ISER, Essex University
An IFS internal seminar.
19 June 2006
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Microsimulating Child Poverty in 2020
Mike Brewer ISER, Essex University and James Browne
An IFS Internal Seminar.
05 June 2006
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Exploiting regional treatment intensity for the evaluation of labour market policies (with Michael Lechner)
Markus Frohlich University of St. Gallen
An IFS Internal Seminar
22 May 2006
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Health and Aggregate Wealth: The Indian Evidence
Sonia Bhalotra Bristol University
An IFS internal seminar.
15 May 2006
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Should Low Skilled Work be Subsidized? (with Philippe Chone)
Guy Laroque INSEE-CREST
An IFS Internal Seminar.
08 May 2006
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The Habits Model
Ian Crawford University of Oxford
An IFS internal seminar.
25 April 2006
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Public Investment and Development: Evidence from Landmine Contamination in Mozambique
Ouarda Merrouche Uppsala University
An IFS Internal Seminar.
24 April 2006
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Unequal pay or unequal employment? A cross-country analysis of gender gaps (joint with Claudia Olivetti, Boston University)
Barbara Petrongolo LSE
An IFS internal seminar.
27 March 2006
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Healthy retirement or unhealthy inactivity?
Carl Emmerson and Gemma Tetlow
An IFS internal seminar.
20 March 2006
Institute for Fiscal Studies
American Idol: Evidence of Same Race Preferences?
Jungmin Lee University of Arkansas and IZA
An IFS internal seminar.
13 March 2006
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Estimating Lifetime Earnings Distributions using Copulas (With Lorraine Dearden, IFS and IoE, Alissa Goodman, IFS, and Greg Kaplan, NYU and IFS)
Emla Fitzsimons
An IFS internal seminar.
06 March 2006
Institute for Fiscal Studies
TBA
Marcos Vera-Hernandez University College London
An IFS internal seminar.
27 February 2006
Institute for Fiscal Studies
TBA
Helene Lilleør CAM, University of Copenhagen
An IFS internal seminar.
20 February 2006
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Migration, Violence and welfare in rural Colombia
Alice Mesnard
An IFS internal seminar.
30 January 2006
Institute for Fiscal Studies
NO IFS SEMINAR: SEMINAR POSTPONED
Emla Fitzsimons
An IFS internal seminar.
21 November 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Supermarket Entry
Heike Harmgart
An IFS internal seminar.
14 November 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Public Services Broadcasting in the Digital Age
Mark Armstrong University College London
An IFS internal seminar.
07 November 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Integrability of Aggregate Demand with Unobservable Heterogeneity: A Integrability of Aggregate Demand with Unobservable Heterogeneity: A Test on Panel Data
Mette Christensen University of Manchester
An IFS internal seminar.
31 October 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
A Dynamic Discrete Choice Model of Labor Supply
Peter Haan DIW, Berlin
An IFS internal seminar.
17 October 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Do the Poor Pay More?
Christine Frayne
An IFS internal seminar.
10 October 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The Incidence of an Earned Income Tax Credit: Evaluating the Impact of Wages in the UK
Ghazala Yasmeen Azmat LSE
An IFS internal seminar.
27 June 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Are Housing Benefits an Efficient Way to Redistribute Income? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in France
Gabrielle Fack Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - EHESS
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20 June 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Education, crime and punishment: a GE analysis
Giovanni Gallipoli University of British Columbia
Education, crime and punishment: a GE analysis
13 June 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
At what age is it best for children to start school? Evidence from the National Pupil Database
Claire Crawford and Lorraine Dearden Bedford Group, Institute of Education, University of London
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23 May 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Conditional Investment Cash Flow Sensitivities and Financing Contraints
Steve Bond Nuffield College, Oxford
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13 May 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Do the Poor Pay More?
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09 May 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
TBA
Eric French Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago
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25 April 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Consistent Nonparametric tests for Lorenz Dominance (with emphasis in the presentation on applied aspects)
Garry Barrett University of New South Wales
04 April 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Entry cost and stock market participation over the life cycle
Sule Alan University of York
14 March 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
What is the Welfare Cost of Financial Crisis when Risk-Sharing is Imperfect?
Burcu Duygan European University Institute
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07 March 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The Impact of Early Nutrition Over the Life Cycle (TBC)
Jere Behrman University of Pennsylvania
The Impact of Early Nutrition Over the Life Cycle
28 February 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Public policy and saving for retirement: Evidence from the introduction of Stakeholder Pensions in the UK
Carl Emmerson, Richard Disney University of Nottingham and Matthew Wakefield University of Bologna
22 February 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Modeling the Performance of Welfare-to-Work Programs: The Effects of Program Management and Services, Economic Environment and Client Characteristics (with Howard Bloom and Carolyn Hill)
James Riccio MDRC
Politics and Efficiency of Seperating Capital and Ordinary Government Budgets (with Thomas J. Sargent)
21 February 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
In-work policies in Europe: killing two birds with one stone? (with Kristian Orsini)
Olivier Bargain IZA
In-work policies in Europe: killing two birds with one stone? (with Kristian Orsini)
07 February 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Politics and efficiency of separating capital and ordinary government budgets
Marco Bassetti University of Minnesota
Politics and efficiency of separating capital and ordinary government budgets
24 January 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Borrowing constraints, the cost of precautionary saving and unemployment insurance (with Hamish Low)
Tom Crossley McMaster University
17 January 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Heterogeneous Adjustment of Employment and Capital after Factor Market Deregulation
Maurice Kugler University of Southampton
10 January 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Peer effects and school textbooks: elementary school education in Francophone Africa
Markus Frölich University of St Gallen
Peer effects and school textbooks: elementary school education in Francophone Africa
01 January 2005
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The impact of nursery education on a cohort of children born in 1958
Alissa Goodman and Barbara Sianesi
The impact of nursery education on a cohort of children born in 1958
12 December 2004
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Portfolio Choice and Stock Market Participation Cost over the Life Cycle.
Sule Alan University of York
An IFS internal seminar.
06 December 2004
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The Short and Long Run Impact of School Year Length: Evidence from Prolonged Teachers' Strikes
Samuel Berlinski University College, London
An IFS internal seminar.
29 November 2004
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The Russian Flat Tax Reform: An Assessment
Alexander Klemm
An IFS internal seminar.
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