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Newsletter - November 2009
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17 September 2009
IFS Briefing Notes
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Britain's fiscal squeeze: the choices ahead
With the public finances in need of repair, this note discusses some of the key questions all the parties will have to grapple with.
05 November 2009
Newspaper Articles
Article
Banking on change
A year and a half into the recession, how close are the public finances to Treasury forecasts and what does the future hold?
13 October 2009
Observations
Article
Have the poor got poorer under Labour?
One of David Cameron's key themes in his speech to the Conservative Party conference was that Labour has "made the poorest poorer", "left youth...
Recruitment
IFS is now recruiting for 2010

IFS is recruiting for three types of post: research economists, graduate scholars and summer students.

Research Economists: Research Economists can expect to be involved in all aspects of research projects - from empirical analysis to writing final reports and giving presentations.

Graduate Scholarship: IFS runs an annual Graduate Scholarship Programme which finances one or more students to undertake research leading to a degree of PhD.

Summer Students: IFS offers several placements each summer to economics students who are interested in how microeconomics can be applied to public policy issues and are considering a career in economic research.

For more details and how to apply, go to our jobs section.

Fiscal studies
Volume 30, Number 2, June 2009.
Article
Building trust? Conditional cash transfer programmes and social capital
Orazio Attanasio, Luca Pellerano and Sandra Polanía Reyes
Article
Would a flat-rate tax stimulate entrepreneurship in Germany? A behavioural microsimulation analysis allowing for risk
Frank M. Fossen
Article
Abolishing the tax-free threshold in Australia: simulating alternative reforms
John Creedy, Nicolas Hérault and Guyonne Kalb
Article
Measuring the effective tax burden in the real world
Vito Polito
Article
Contract type and the cost of provision: evidence from maintenance service contracts
Paul H. Jensen and Robin E. Stonecash
CEMMAP events
22 March 2010
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Econometric analysis of scanner data
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An IFS / cemmap / JAE conference.
12 May 2010
Birkbeck, Clore Management Centre
Advanced computational methods for estimation and policy analysis in economics
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Speakers include: Che-Lin Su (Chicago) Valentina Michelangeli (US Congressional Budget Office) Lars Nesheim (cemmap and UCL) Juan Rubio-Ramirez (Duke) Ben Skrainka (cemmap and UCL)
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