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IFS Annual Lecture - Innovation and productivity policies: a budgetary perspective event 15 May 2024 Professor Heidi Williams (Dartmouth College) delivered the 2024 IFS Annual Lecture on innovation and productivity policies.
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Optimal random taxation and redistribution Working PaperWe assess the usefulness of stochastic redistribution among a continuum of risk-averse agents with quasilinear utilities in labor.7 September 2022
Are trade wars class wars? The importance of trade-induced horizontal inequality Working PaperThis paper demonstrates conceptually and empirically the importance of “trade-induced horizontal inequality."6 September 2022
Overconfidence and technology adoption in health care Working PaperWe study the determinants of adoption in the case of implantable cardiac defibrillators, for which we document large differences across hospitals.31 August 2022
Design of two-stage experiments with an application to spillovers in tax compliance Working PaperWe set up a framework to conduct experiments for estimating spillover effects when units are grouped into mutually exclusive clusters.22 August 2022
The impact of unions on nonunion wage setting: threats and bargaining Working PaperIn this paper we provide new estimates of the impact of unions on nonunion wage setting.18 August 2022
The distribution of doctor quality: evidence from cardiologists in England Working PaperThis paper provides new evidence on the role senior doctors play in determining patient outcomes.9 August 2022
Wealth, gifts and estate planning at the end of life Working PaperWe quantify the size and tax-responsiveness of financial transfers made to heirs before death.28 July 2022
Parental Investments and Intra-household Inequality in Child Human Capital: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment Working PaperI study the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants.21 July 2022
Can white elephants kill? Unintended consequences of infrastructure development Working PaperI provide evidence of the severe social costs imposed by infrastructure projects that are being implemented in the context of sewerage in Peru.12 July 2022
Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK Working PaperWe examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time in the UK.6 July 2022
In-kind transfers as insurance Working PaperUsing calorie shortfalls as a marginal utility proxy, we find that in-kind transfers are preferred for low-income Indian households.29 June 2022
Intergenerational income persistence: evidence for the UK Working PaperWe spotlight some newer directions in intergenerational mobility research within economics driven by changes in some key trends in the recent decades29 June 2022
Intergenerational income mobility in England and the importance of education Working PaperWe use newly linked UK administrative to estimate absolute income mobility for children born in England in the 1980s.17 June 2022
Prioritization, risk selection, and illness severity in a mixed health care system Working PaperWe study the link between illness severity and the use of public health care services by the privately insured under a public health system.16 June 2022
More powerful cluster randomized control trials Working PaperThis paper describes methods to optimally choose the number of treatment and control clusters and the number of units within.16 June 2022
Take-up and labour supply responses to disability insurance earnings limits Working PaperWe develop a simple framework to evaluate the trade-offs with disability insurance programs.15 June 2022
The impacts of preferential college admissions for the disadvantaged: experimental evidence from the PACE programme in Chile Working PaperWe study the impacts that preferential admissions can have on the higher-education admission, enrolment and retention of disadvantaged students.9 June 2022
Social proximity and misinformation: experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India Working PaperWe study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health behaviour campaigns.8 June 2022
Earnings risk, government policy, and household welfare Working PaperThe project documents that the dynamics of male and female labour earnings in the UK is substantially richer than typically assumed.20 May 2022
Policy choice in time series by empirical welfare maximization Working PaperThis paper develops a novel method for policy choice in a dynamic setting where the available data is a multi-variate time-series.19 May 2022
