 Facts and figures about UK taxes, benefits and public spending.
Income distribution, poverty and inequality.
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Analysis of the fiscal choices an independent Scotland would face.
Case studies that give a flavour of the areas where IFS research has an impact on society.
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Britta joined the research team at EDePo@IFS in 2008. Her research focuses on microfinance, household investments decisions, subjective expectation data and program evaluation. She has extensive experience in the management of research projects and corresponding data collection. She for example managed a three-wave household survey in Anantapur, India (n=1,000) and a three-state evaluation study of a sanitation intervention delivered through microfinance institutions (n=6,000). Britta holds a degree in Econometrics and PhD in Social Protection Policy from the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. She is a research associate at the United Nations University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. 
All available publications
Jonathan Argent, Britta Augsburg and Imran Rasul, March 2013,
Livestock Asset Transfers and the Provision of Training: Evidence from Rwanda's One Cow Programme
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Presentations
Ralph De Haas, Heike Harmgart, Britta Augsburg and Costas Meghir, November 2012,
EBRD Impact Brief. Microfinance on the margin: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina,
External publications
Britta Augsburg, Ralph De Haas, Heike Harmgart and Costas Meghir, September 2012,
Microfinance, Poverty and Education,
IFS Working Papers
, W12/15
Britta Augsburg, Ralph De Haas, Heike Harmgart and Costas Meghir, September 2012,
Microfinance at the margin: experimental evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina,
External publications
, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Britta Augsburg, Orazio Attanasio, Ralph de Haas, Heike Harmgart and Emla Fitzsimons, May 2012,
Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from Mongolia,
External publications
, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Britta Augsburg, December 2011,
Livestock for the poor: under what conditions?,
IFS Working Papers
, W11/21
Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg, Ralph de Haas, Emla Fitzsimons and Heike Harmgart, December 2011,
Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia,
IFS Working Papers
, W11/20
Britta Augsburg, December 2011,
FINISH evaluation study: a comparative summary of baseline reports,
Mimeos
Orazio Attanasio and Britta Augsburg, April 2011,
Reforming microfinance, what is the evidence?,
Observations
Britta Augsburg, April 2011,
Safe sanitation: findings from the impact evaluation baseline survey in Orissa, India,
IFS Reports
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