 Facts and figures about UK taxes, benefits and public spending.
Income distribution, poverty and inequality.
Analysing government fiscal forecasts and tax and spending.
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.
Reforming the tax system for the 21st century.
A peer-reviewed quarterly journal publishing articles by academics and practitioners.
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Since 1986 Richard has been Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, where he is also Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy. He also holds the David Ricardo Chair of Political Economy at University College London and has held visiting professor positions at UBC, MIT and Berkeley. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland in 2003. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours List 2006. He is Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1991; Fellow of the British Academy, 1996; Honorary Fellow of the American Economic Association, 2001; Honorary Member American Academy of Arts and Science, 2002; and Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries 2003. He was President of the European Economic Association in 2004 and President of the Econometric Society in 2006. He is currently President of the Royal Economic Society. In 1995 he was awarded the Yrjö Jahnsson Prize for his work in microeconometrics, labour supply and consumer behaviour. The paper 'Estimating Labour Supply Responses using Tax Reforms' was awarded the Econometric Society Frisch Prize in 2000. He was also the 4th recipient of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize in 2008. He was editor of the Journal of Econometrics from 1992 to 1997, and co-editor of Econometrica 1997-2001. He is an editor and author of the Mirrlees Review of Tax Reform. 
All available publications
James Banks, Richard Blundell and Ian Preston, January 1991,
Life-cycle expenditure allocations and the consumption costs of children,
European Economic Review,
Vol. 38, pp. 1391-1410,
Journal Articles
Richard Blundell, January 1991,
Econometric approaches to the specification and estimation of intertemporal consumer behaviour,
in Measurement and modelling in economics North-Holland,
Book Chapters
Richard Blundell, January 1991,
Consumer behaviour: theory and empirical evidence a survey,
in Surveys in economics Cambridge University Press,
Book Chapters
Richard Blundell, January 1991,
Microeconomics,
in Companion to contemporary economic thought Routledge,
Book Chapters
Richard Blundell, January 1991,
Intertemporal comparisons of household welfare : the identification of equivalence scales,
in Measurement of economic welfare Swedish Economic Journal,
Book Chapters
Alan Duncan, Richard Blundell and Costas Meghir, January 1991,
Endogeneity, selectivity and taxes in the estimation of female labour supply models,
Conference Papers
Ian Preston and Richard Blundell, January 1991,
The distinction between income and consumption in the measurement of household welfare,
Conference Papers
Ian Preston and Richard Blundell, January 1991,
The distinction between income and consumption in the measurement of household welfare,
Conference Papers
Paul Baker and Richard Blundell, January 1991,
The microeconometric approach to modelling energy demand: some results for UK households,
Oxford Review of Economic Policy,
Vol. 7, No.2,
Journal Articles
Richard Blundell, January 1991,
The econometrics of labour supply and taxation,
Revista Espanola de Economia,
Vol. 8, No. 1,
Journal Articles
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