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Alan Duncan
Research Associate
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B.A. Economics, University of Manchester, 1986
D.Phil Economics, University of York, 1990

Professor Duncan stepped into the role of Director at NATSEM on March 29 2010, leaving his previous position of Professor of Microeconomics and the Head of School at Nottingham School of Economics, University of Nottingham. Professor Duncan joined the University of Nottingham in 1999 as a Reader in Applied Microeconomics and was promoted to Professor of Microeconomics in 2001. He has held positions at the University of York and the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) where he is currently a Research Associate.

Professor Duncan’s research interests lie within the fields of welfare program evaluation, the analysis of work incentives, static and behavioural tax microsimulation, econometric models of labour supply, labour market and welfare programme participation, modelling childcare use and the impact of childcare policies, poverty and poverty alleviation, semiparametric and nonparametric estimation methods. He has published widely in these fields such as Econometrica, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Applied Econometrics and Fiscal Studies.

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Mike Brewer, Alan Duncan and Andrew Shephard, January 2007,  Did working families' tax credit work? The impact of in-work support on labour supply in Great Britain Labour Economics,  Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 699-720, Elsevier, Journal Articles
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Mike Brewer, Alan Duncan, Andrew Shephard and María José Suárez, December 2003,  Did Working Families' Tax Credit work? Analysing the impact of in-work support on labour supply and programme participation External publications , Inland Revenue
Gillian Paull, Jayne Taylor and Alan Duncan, March 2002,  Mothers' employment and childcare in Britain IFS Reports , R64 , 978-1-903274-23-1
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Gillian Paull and Alan Duncan, March 2002,  Can mothers afford to work?,  IFS Press Releases
Gillian Paull and Alan Duncan, March 2002,  Can mothers afford to work? IFS Press Releases
John Creedy and Alan Duncan, November 2001,  Aggregating labour supply and feedback effects in microsimulation IFS Working Papers , W01/24
Alan Duncan, Gillian Paull and Jayne Taylor, October 2001,  Mothers' employment and the use of childcare in the UK IFS Working Papers , W01/23
Alan Duncan, Gillian Paull and Jayne Taylor, May 2001,  Price and quality in the UK childcare market IFS Working Papers , W01/14
Alan Duncan and Graham Stark, May 2000,  A recursive algorithm to generate piecewise linear budget contraints IFS Working Papers , W00/11
Richard Blundell, Alan Duncan, Julian McCrae and Costas Meghir, March 2000,  The labour market impact of the working families' tax credit Fiscal Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, March 2000,  Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 75-103, Journal Articles
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