Rachel Griffith, Research Director at IFS, is the 1st holder of the newly established ECORES chair. She will give 4 lectures, looking at what different types of policies, aimed at reducing obesity, might achieve in terms of reducing long-run inequalities in health, social and economic outcomes. Lecture topics:

  • "Should governments control what we eat?"(19 April)
  • "Self-control in Food Purchases" (23 April)
  • "Tax Design for Sin Goods" (24 April)
  • "Habit Formation in Sugar Consumption" (26 April)

Full details & registration can be found here: