Events

This event launches a new report by IFS researchers, The Poverty Trade-Off: Work incentives and income redistribution in Britain, which provides new evidence on the trade-off between redistributing income and improving work incentives.

This Workshop will bring together leading researchers in the field of Family Economics to present and discuss new contributions and ideas.

The IFS annual lecture, which will be given by Professor Alan Auerbach.

The summer school in economics and finance aims at providing established practitioners and academics from all over the world with an opportunity to update their training in fields within CEMFI's range of expertise.

This workshop has been organised by ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE) and the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy (CPP).

The theme of the meeting is institutions and the economy.

A cemmap Master Class.

A COST 23 conference.

An IFS briefing.

A CEP / IFS Productivity and Innovation Seminar.

This course will discuss the econometric theory for panels with a large number of units (e.g. individuals or firms) and a large number of time periods.

An IFS / ETPF Conference.

An opportunity to hear a considered view of the Chancellor's 2005 Budget announcements from Institute staff.

A cemmap Master Class.

The Government's latest figures on the distribution of income and the extent of relative poverty in Britain will be released by the Department for Work and Pensions on Thursday 9th March. These figures will also tell us whether the Government met its target for child poverty to have fallen by a quarter since 1998/9. The IFS will be releasing a detailed analysis of the latest figures and recent trends, which will be presented on Monday 13th March.

The course deals with theoretical aspects of social interactions and with the empirical identification of socials interactions based on observational and experimental data.

At this workshop researchers will discuss preliminary research ideas using newly available panel data on household expenditure. The meeting is invitation only.

On Thursday 2nd March 2006, Professor James Banks will deliver an Inaugural Lecture, entitled "Economic choices, capabilities and outcomes at older ages".