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Rachel Griffith

Rachel Griffith

Research Director

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Education

PhD "Taxes, the location of multinationals and productivity: an empirical analysis using panel data," Keele University 1999
MSc Econometrics and Forecasting, City of London Polytechnic, 1991
BA magna cum laude, Economics, University of Massachusetts, 1985

Rachel is Research Director of the IFS and Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP). She is Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester, a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Research Fellow of CEPR. She is also President of the Royal Economic Society in 2019/2020. Rachel won the Birgit Grodal award in 2014 and was awarded a CBE in Queen's Birthday Honours 2015 for services to economic policy. Her research considers the relationship between government policy and economic performance. Her specific interests relate to empirical industrial organisation, the retail food sector, nutrition, innovation, productivity and corporate tax.

Academic outputs

Journal article | American Economic Review
How Well Targeted Are Soda Taxes?
Soda taxes aim to reduce excessive sugar consumption. We assess who are most impacted by soda taxes. We estimate demand using micro longitudinal data covering on-the-go purchases, and exploit the panel dimension to estimate individual specific preferences. We relate these preferences and ...
IFS Working Paper W20/27
Potential consequences of post-Brexit trade barriers for earnings inequality in the UK
We examine the distributional consequences of post-Brexit trade barriers on wages in the UK.

Reports and comment

Briefing note
Getting people back into work
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented social distancing measures around the world to contain the spread of the virus. The UK has, like many countries, effectively closed down entire sectors of its economy and severely limited activity in many other sectors. This curtailing of activity is ...
Observation
Could coronavirus infect the Consumer Price Index?
The spread of COVID-19 has led to sweeping changes in the way households work, spend their time and shop. This has led to large changes in spending patterns and, in some cases, rapid price changes. How will changes such as these be reflected in headline inflation measures such as the Consumer ...

Presentations

Presentation
Getting the UK back to work
At this event, IFS researchers discussed some of the ways in which policy should rise to the challenge of getting people back to work safely and productively.
Presentation
A new year, a new you? Temptation and self-control in food purchases
This presentation was given at the plenary talk at the Association of South European Theorists Annual Conference in Algiers.