Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UKs leading research funding and training agency addressing economic and social concerns. IFS receives core funding from the ESRC for the Centre for the Analysis of Public Policy.

Centres:

• Programme evaluation for policy analysis
• ESRC Centre for Fiscal Policy
• ESRC Centre for Fiscal Policy
• ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Fiscal Policy
• Centre for Early Years and Education Research
• Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP)

Currently funded projects:

• The economics of public and private pension provision
• Labour supply in France, the UK and the US
• Dynamic evaluation of tax and benefit policies
• The effects of the financial crisis on older adults in England
• Taxes, firm heterogeneity and the location of intellectual property
• A reassessment of the ERA
• Education spending
• Health spending
• Aggregate public spending
• Assessment of governments' fiscal performance
• Public finance Observations
• Who benefits from Child Benefit?
• Economic and econometric implications of finite company lifetimes
• Monthly public finances analysis
• Human development and poverty reduction in developing countries
• Econometric Study Group
• Trends in public sector pay differentials and pay dispersion in the 1980's and 1990's
• Econometric study group
• Green Budget 2005
• School supply and the effectiveness of conditional cash transfers
• Training, human resource policies and company performance
• The determinants and effects of work-related training
• Bootstrapping GMM estimators in dynamic panel data models
• Fiscal Facts
• Risk and household saving behaviour
• Training courses, master classes and symposia in microdata methods and practice
• The impact and incidence of fiscal policy on the personal and corporate sectors
• Public expenditure and pensioners' resources
• Modelling lifecycle labour supply and asset holding with fixed costs
• Econometric study group
• Aggregation over individual decisions of investment
• Econometric Study Group
• Inequalities in health in an ageing population
• Household and individual consumption decisions under extreme poverty
• Charitable giving: an economic perspective
• Understanding the effects of early motherhood in Britain: the effects on mothers
• Relative welfare rankings
• Misreported schooling and returns to education in the UK
• Housing wealth over the life-cycle
• Pensions policy paper
• Late life work, health and retirement
• Fiscal Rules
• UK corporation tax revenue
• Pension Credit
• The financing of innovative firms
• Analysis of Higher Education reforms
• Ethnic inequalities in child development
• Practical, nonparametric methods for demand analysis
• Distributional effects of fiscal policy, impact and incidence of corporation tax
• De-regulation in practice: a study of electricity supply after the Energy Act
• Franchising and competitive tendering in the public sector: a comparative study
• The impact and incidence of fiscal policy on the personal and corporate sectors
• A long term framework for the analysis of public expenditure and taxation
• Micro to macro modelling
• Credit market imperfections: analysis using micro data
• Integrating Income Tax and National Insurance
• Rules for energy taxation in the S.E.M
• Targeting and control in the finance of local governance
• The impact of capping on local government service provision
• Income dynamics and health inequalities : an analysis of cohort and panel data
• Substitution bias in the UK Retail Price Index
• Demand uncertainty, investment and employment: a structural empirical analysis
• Parental income and youth smoking
• Tax Credits
• The optimality of tax credits in the UK
• Environmental taxes
• Public economics UK
• The effects of shocks on education and child labour: evidence from Colombia
• The structure of consumption in rural Colombia: Using Engel curves to estimate the effect of a welfare program
• Public policy and fertility
• Regional wage inequality in the UK
• Product market and labour market reforms
• The effects of risk and shocks on education and child labour: evidence from Colombia
• Family networks and household behaviour
• An investigation of stated-response data: withdrawing a subsidy
• Intra-household decision power and nutrition
• Date of school entry and work decisions of low-income lone parents
• Child poverty
• Econometric Study Group
• Risk sharing in Colombia
• Means testing and tax rates on earnings
• The base for direct taxation
• Value added tax and excises
• Administration and compliance
• Taxing corporate income
• The political economy of tax policy
• Taxation in the UK
• International capital taxation
• Taxation of wealth and wealth transfers
• Labour supply and taxes
• Small business taxation
• The effects on consumption and saving of taxing asset returns
• Widening participation in higher education
• Pre-primary education and educational performance
• Nutrition and child care choices in Colombia
• Do the poor pay more?
• Intra-household education choices in Colombia: a structural framework
• Migration, violence and welfare in rural Colombia
• Income expectations, income risk
• Education and wages in Brazil
• Using experimental games to investigate social networks in rural Colombia
• The impact of Familias en Acción on prices
• Food and cash transfers: evidence from Colombia
• Networks
• Enforcement of labor regulation in Brazil and informality
• Globalisation, innovation and productivity
• Product market competition, technology and productivity
• Training disadvantaged youth in Latin America: evidence from a randomized trial
• Education choices in Mexico: using a structural model and a randomized experiment to evaluate Progresa
• The shift from joint to independent income taxation in the UK
• A discrete choice model of family labour supply
• Re-evaluating conditional cash transfers: is the PROGRESA primary school stipend necessary?
• How are children affected when the father leaves for good? Evidence from school and work choices in Colombia
• Testing the quantity-quality model in Mexico
• Early child development pilot in Colombia
• Peace and goodwill? Using an experimental game to analyse Paz y Desarrollo
• Effects of reproductive health on poverty in Malawi
• Mirrlees Review
• Mirrlees Review editorial team
• Universal Credit analysis