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20 January 2012
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IFS authors present at North American meetings
A number of papers were presented at the North American economics conferences in January 2012, as part of the Allied Social Science Assocations annual meeting. This year the meetings were held in Chicago from 5 to 8 January.

  • As part of the American Economic Association's conference, this paper was selected for the session on 'Educational choices and returns to skills': The impact of early cognitive and non-cognitive skills on later outcomes, Pedro Carneiro (University College London, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, IFS, and Georgetown University), Claire Crawford (Institute for Fiscal Studies) and Alissa Goodman (Institute for Fiscal Studies).

  • As part of the Econometric Society North American Winter Meeting, Richard Blundell, IFS Research Director and Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconimic Analysis of Public Policy at IFS, chaired a session on 'Revealed Preferences: Modeling and Inference'. One of the papers given as part of the session was Multiple goods, multiple tastes and revealed preference, Richard Blundell (University College London and IFS), Dennis Kristensen (Columbia University) and Rosa Liliana Matzkin (University of California-Los Angeles). Discussants for the session included Ian Crawford (IFS and Oxford University).

  • At a related meeting on Financing human capital investment, Orazio Attanasio, one of the directors of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at IFS, presented a paper on 'The production function of human capital in developing countries'. Discussion of the paper was led by Nobel laureate, James Heckman, an international research fellow of IFS.
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