Authors

Deputy Director
Carl, a Deputy Director, is an editor of the IFS Green Budget, an expert on the UK pension system and sits on the Social Security Advisory Committee.

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.

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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