Authors
![Carl Emmerson](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-06/Carl_Emmerson.jpg?itok=6jM06LTY)
Deputy Director
Carl, a Deputy Director, is an editor of the IFS Green Budget, is expert on the UK pension system and sits on the Social Security Advisory Committee.
![Richard Disney](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-05/Richard_Disney.jpeg?itok=l_sa1MjX)
Research Associate University of Sussex
Richard is an IFS Research Associate, a Part-time Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex and a Visiting Professor of Economics at UCL.
![Sarah Smith](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-07/Sarah%20Smith.jpg?itok=0-hn5Gx1)
Research Associate University of Bristol
Sarah is a Research Associate at the IFS and Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Bristol with interest in applied microeconomics.
Book Chapter details
- ISBN
- 0-226-09284-4
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
Suggested citation
R, Disney and C, Emmerson and S, Smith. (2004). 'Pension reform and economic performance in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s' Chicago: University of Chicago Press
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