The £600 billion problem awaiting the next government podcastWe speak to David Gauke and Giles Wilkes, two experts who have been at the heart of the spending review process.25 April 2024
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Should we worry about government debt? podcastDavid Miles joins us to discuss high government debt and its impact on the economy. 11 April 2024
IFS Annual Lecture - Innovation and productivity policies: a budgetary perspective event 15 May 2024 Professor Heidi Williams (Dartmouth College) will deliver the 2024 IFS Annual Lecture on innovation and productivity policies.
Higher Education Access and Funding: challenges and policy options conference 14 May 2024 This one-day academic conference will look at access to and funding of Higher Education systems.
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Understanding Society: minimising selection biases in data collection using mobile apps Journal article We review the potential barriers to data collection using mobile apps and experimental evidence collected with the UK Household Longitudinal Study. 2 February 2024
Robust analysis of short panels Working Paper Examples of application to some static and dynamic binary, ordered and multiple discrete choice panel data models are presented. 8 January 2024
A coefficient of variation for ordered categorical data: Analyzing relative health inequality and ageing in the UK and relative human resource inequality and gender in Canada Working Paper The rise of ordinal data in empirical sciences calls for location and variation measurement instruments suitable for such data environments. 21 December 2023
Measuring wellbeing growth and convergence in multivariate ordered categorical worlds: Has there been any levelling up in the United Kingdom? Working Paper Whilst there is strong evidence of growth, the results indicate that there is little evidence of "levelling up" type growth in the United Kingdom. 21 December 2023
Adverse selection among early adopters and unraveling innovation Working Paper I provide an equilibrium analysis of 'selection markets,' where consumers vary in both their willingness to pay and the cost to the seller. 18 December 2023
Social proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India Working Paper We study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health behaviour campaigns. 7 December 2023
Walk the talk: Measuring green preferences with social media data Working Paper We created a unique data set based on social media data by collecting all the tweets of 54,000 Swedish citizens between January and June 2019. 6 November 2023
Powerful t-tests in the presence of nonclassical measurement error Working Paper This paper proposes an alternative to the t-test hypothesis that a coefficient in linear regression is equal to zero when a regressor is mismeasured. 2 November 2023
Inference for rank-rank regressions Working Paper Slope coefficients in rank-rank regressions are popular measures of intergenerational mobility. 2 November 2023
Identification analysis in models with unrestricted latent variables: Fixed effects and initial conditions Working Paper Examples of application to some static and dynamic binary, ordered and multiple discrete choice panel data models are presented. 11 October 2023
Identifying network ties from panel data: theory and an application to tax competition Working Paper We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between agents. 11 October 2023
Estimating intra-household sharing from time-use data Working Paper This report shows that it is possible to use time-use data to estimate resource sharing in households via linear regression. 8 September 2023
Robust estimation and inference in panels with interactive fixed effects Working Paper We consider estimation and inference for a regression coefficient in panels with interactive fixed effects (i.e., with a factor structure). 7 July 2023
Design of partial population experiments with an application to spillovers in tax compliance Working Paper We develop a framework to conduct experiments for estimating direct and spillover effects when units are grouped into mutually exclusive clusters. 24 April 2023
Heterogeneity of consumption responses to income shocks in the presence of nonlinear persistence Working Paper We use enhanced consumption data in the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics from 2005–2017 to explore the transmission of income shocks to consumption. 14 April 2023
Taking the biscuit: how Safari privacy policies affect online advertising Working Paper We analyse how much advertisers are willing to pay for third-party cookies and how tightening privacy policies affect market outcomes. 9 February 2023
Identifying network ties from panel data: theory and an application to tax competition Working Paper We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between agents. 18 January 2023
Identifying the effect of persuasion Working Paper This paper examines a commonly used measure of persuasion whose precise interpretation has been obscure in the literature. 14 December 2022
Moment conditions for dynamic panel logit models with fixed effects Working Paper This paper investigates the construction of moment conditions in discrete choice panel data with individual specific fixed effects. 1 December 2022
Revealed beliefs and the marriage market return to education Working Paper This paper develops a new methodology to analyse how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters’ schooling and marriage. 23 November 2022
