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Laura van der Erve

Laura van der Erve presents at Women in Economics conference

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IFS Research Economist, Laura ven der Erve, spoke at the fourth annual Women in Economics conference, held in Cambridge at Gonville and Caius College. The speakers at the event were: Victoria Bateman, Director of Studies in Economics at Caius Hannah Peaker, Chief of Staff at the Women's Equalit...

21 September 2018

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In Memoriam: Sir James Mirrlees (1936-2018)

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It is with great sadness that the Institute for Fiscal Studies notes the death of Sir James Mirrlees (1936-2018). He has been a figure of enormous importance both for the magnitude of his influence on the field of public policy analysis in general and more particularly for his role in the Institute&...

30 August 2018

IFS Director Paul Johnson receives honorary doctorate from UCL

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IFS Director Paul Johnson has been awarded an honorary doctorate from University College London. The degree was presented on 3rd June at the morning graduation ceremony for Social and Historical Sciences postgraduate students at theRoyal Festival Hall. IFS Director Paul Johnson and CPP Director...

3 July 2018

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Lecture series: personalized patient care under uncertainty

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TheCentre for Microdata Methods and Practice and Department of Economics at Duke University are pleased to co-sponsor a two-day lecture series to be delivered by Professor Charles F. Manski of Northwestern University. These lectures will focus on evidence-based decision making for patient care under...

29 June 2018

IFS Research fellow Abi Adams wins ESRC award for impact in public policy

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IFS Research fellow Dr Abi Adams hasbeen awarded the2018 ESRC Outstanding Impact in Public Policy award. The award was given for her research on employment tribunal fees which contributed to the unanimous Supreme Court finding in July 2017 that the fee system for employment tribunal claimants was un...

21 June 2018

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IFS authors' article most downloaded in Economica in 2017

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An article by IFS authors was the most downloaded in the journal Economica for 2017. The article, 'Two Decades of Income Inequality in Britain: The Role of Wages, Household Earnings & Redistribution', by Chris Belfield, Richard Blundell, Jonthan Cribb, Andrew Hood, and Robert Joyce was published...

19 June 2018

Paul Johnson

IFS director Paul Johnson awarded CBE

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IFS director, Paul Johnson, has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire), for services to the social sciences and economics, in the Queen's birthday honours list 2018....

9 June 2018

Ambulance

How would you fund the NHS?

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How would you fund the NHS? Use our interactive NHS funding tool to try and reach these projected funding “targets” through increasing taxes and/or by cutting government spending in other areas. Try the NHS funding tool ...

24 May 2018

Helen Miller

Helen Miller wins Tax Personality of the Year

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Helen Miller, director of the tax research programme at the IFS, has been awarded the prestigious Tax Personality of the Year award for 2018. The 2018 awards were on Thursday 17th May at the Hilton Park Lane where over 500 tax professionals celebrated the winners. Helen Miller receives the award...

18 May 2018

NHS surgeons

IFS announces project with the BBC to mark 70 years of the NHS

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To mark the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) will be working with a group of leading independent research organisations including the Health Foundation, the King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust on a project with the BBC. The group will be coming together to ad...

11 April 2018

Rachel Griffith to be the new President-elect of the Royal Economic Society

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The Royal Economic Society (RES) has appointed Professor Rachel Griffith as its President-elect from 2019/2020. They also announced that the former Chief Economist of the World Bank and former President of the British Academy, Lord Nicholas Stern will be President of the Royal Economic Society for 2...

29 March 2018

Paul Johnson awarded Honorary Fellowship of CIOT

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IFS Director Paul Johnsonhas beenawarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) for his outstanding contribution to the field of taxation. CIOT President John Preston, who presented the award at the annual CIOT President's Luncheon on 9 January, said that the "Honorary...

10 January 2018

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Orazio Attanasio to be Econometric Society President in 2020

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Orazio Attanasio, a Research Director of IFS and Professor of Economics at University College London, has been elected Second Vice-President of the Econometric Society. He will be First Vice-President in 2019, and President in 2020. Orazio is Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Ana...

14 November 2017

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IFS/CEP conference: Wages, labour market policy and the safety net

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A conference was held on 26-28 October, jointly run by IFS and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. The academic organisers were Richard Blundell, Rui Costa, Hilary Hoynes, Robert Joyce, Stephen Machin and Jim Ziliak. Papers and presentations from the conference are...

10 November 2017