The 2018 Royal Economic Society Annual Conference will be held at the University of Sussex on 26-28 March 2018.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies will be represented by a number of researchers presenting their work over the course of the conference:

Monday 26 March

11:45 - 13:15 Rachel Cassidy

Applied Behavioural Economics 1: "Are the poor really so present-biased? Experimental evidence from Pakistan"

    
11:45 - 13:15 Rachel GriffithFiscal/Redistributive Interventions: "Individual preference heterogeneity, targeting and welfare effects of soda taxes"
    
11:45 - 13:15 Jonathan CribbLabour Economics: Income Distribution and Inequality 1: "Entering the labour market in a weak economy: scarring and insurance"
    
11:45 - 13:15 Francisco OteizaAgricultural Markets: "Climate Change and Agriculture: Farmer Adaptation to Extreme Heat"
    
14:15 - 15:45 Alex WolfMeasuring Individual Poverty: "Issues in the production of measures of individual poverty"
    
18:00 - 19:15 Jack BrittonFringe Event Panel Discussion: "Is it worth going to university?"
    

Tuesday 27 March

09:00 - 10:30 Rachel CassidyLabour Economics: Demography and Gender 2: "The power to protect: household bargaining and female condom use"
    
13:30- 15:00 Carl EmmersonB5: The Effects of Longer Working at Older Ages: "The causal impact of longer working on cognitive function and mobility: exploiting the increase in the state pension age for women in the UK"
    
15:30 - 17:00 Barra RoantreeInequality: "Mobility and the lifetime distributional impact of tax and transfer reforms"
    
15:30 - 17:00 Laura van der ErveEducational Outcomes: "Returns to Higher Education for Women: in the Labour Market and Marriage Market"
    

Wednesday 28 March

09:00 - 10:30 Jack BrittonEducation:Empirical Studies: "Where is the subsidy going? Using administrative data to value English income contingent student loans by subject and university" (Work in progress)
    
15:15 - 16:45 Luke SibietaEducation: Teachers: "The effect of cash incentives on the quantity and quality of new teachers in hard-to-staff subjects"
    
15:15 - 16:45 Tom LeeEmpirical Health Studies: "Clinical guidelines in the real-world of medicine: evidence from the roll-out of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention facilities in England"
    
15:15 - 16:45 Benjamin ZarankoEmpirical Health Studies: "Substitution between health and social care: evidence from England"
    
15:15 - 16:45 Thomas PopeTaxation and Income Elasticity: "Income shifting and responses to tax: evidence from company owner-managers"

 

For the full programme and to register, please visit the RES website.