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 Griffith | Fiscal/Redistributive Interventions: "Individual preference heterogeneity, targeting and welfare effects of soda taxes" | |
11:45 - 13:15 | Jonathan Cribb | Labour Economics: Income Distribution and Inequality 1: "Entering the labour market in a weak economy: scarring and insurance" | |
11:45 - 13:15 | Francisco Oteiza | Agricultural Markets: "Climate Change and Agriculture: Farmer Adaptation to Extreme Heat" | |
14:15 - 15:45 | Alex Wolf | Measuring Individual Poverty: "Issues in the production of measures of individual poverty" | |
18:00 - 19:15 | Jack Britton | Fringe Event Panel Discussion: "Is it worth going to university?" | |
Tuesday 27 March | |||
09:00 - 10:30 | Rachel Cassidy | Labour Economics: Demography and Gender 2: "The power to protect: household bargaining and female condom use" | |
13:30- 15:00 | Carl Emmerson | B5: 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 Roantree | Inequality: "Mobility and the lifetime distributional impact of tax and transfer reforms" | |
15:30 - 17:00 | Laura van der Erve | Educational Outcomes: "Returns to Higher Education for Women: in the Labour Market and Marriage Market" | |
Wednesday 28 March | |||
09:00 - 10:30 | Jack Britton | Education: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 Sibieta | Education: Teachers: "The effect of cash incentives on the quantity and quality of new teachers in hard-to-staff subjects" | |
15:15 - 16:45 | Tom Lee | Empirical 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 Zaranko | Empirical Health Studies: "Substitution between health and social care: evidence from England" | |
15:15 - 16:45 | Thomas Pope | Taxation 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.