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:

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