The Leverhulme Trust

The Leverhulme Trust, established at the wish of William Hesketh Lever, the first Viscount Leverhulme, makes awards for the support of research and education. The Trsut funds a rainge of work at IFS, including the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, which aims to develop new and better methodologies and to disseminate good practice in the analysis of mirodata.

Centres:

• Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)

Currently funded projects:

• School quality research
• ICT diffusion in Brazil and India
• Impacts of measurement error on microdata-based inference
• Dynamic panel data models, estimation and inference
• Life-cycle savings and labour supply with non-convex budget constraints
• Research on schooling and wages using methods of local instrumental variables
• Nonparametric and semiparametric methods
• Using household aggregate data to infer individual behaviour
• Testing for functional structure in preference orderings
• Lifecyle model of demand for housing
• Identification
• Nonparametric methods for characteristics models
• Hedonic research
• Empirical coalition production models
• R&D, innovation and technology transfer
• Agglomeration and firm location
• Conditional cash transfer programs, child development and childcare