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: http://feb.kuleuven.be/Economics/
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CPP Co-Director, IFS Research Director
Rachel is Research Director and Professor at the University of Manchester. She was made a Dame for services to economic policy and education in 2021.
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