The 2017 Royal Economic Society Annual Conference will be held at the University of Bristol on 10-12 April 2017.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies will be represented by a number of researchers presenting their work over the course of the conference:
Monday 10 April | |||
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Paul Johnson | Policy Plenary Session: "Post-Brexit Economics" | |
| 17:15 - 18:45 | Christine Farquharson | Education Session 1: "The causal impacy of breakfast club provision on academic attainment" | |
| 17:15 - 18:45 | Kate Smith | Tax and Public Policy Session 1: "Alcohol tax design" | |
Tuesday 11 April | |||
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Chris Belfield | Education Session 2: "Outside options and teacher retention" | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Jonathan Shaw | Tax and Public Policy Session 2: "The dynamic effects of tax audits" | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | James Banks | Behavioural Session 3: "Is there a causal effect of education on decision-making? Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment" | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Martin O'Connell | Tax and Public Policy Session 3: "How well targeted are soda taxes?" | |
| 15:45 - 17:15 | Rachel Griffith | IO2: "Demand estimation with unobserved choice set heterogeneity" | |
Wednesday 12 April | |||
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Jonathan Cribb | Pensions and Retirement Session: "When governments introduce default options: the effect of automatic enrolment on pension saving in the United Kingdom" | |
| 13:45 - 15:15 | Arun Advani | Junior Fellows Special Session: "Informal insurance and endogenous poverty traps" | |
| 13:45 - 15:15 | Sonya Krutikova | MiSoC Special Session: Mental Health and Human Capital: "Maternal depression and child human capital development: a value-added approach" | |
For the full programme and to register, please visit the RES website.
Speakers
Arun Advani
Arun is a Research Fellow at IFS, an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and a Commissioner at the Wealth Tax Commission.
James Banks
James is Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Economics at Manchester, working on broad issues in the economics of retirement, savings and health.
Jonathan Cribb
Jonathan is an Associate Director and Head of Retirement, Savings and Ageing sector, focusing on pensions, savings and later-life economic activity.
Christine Farquharson
Christine's research examines inequalities in children's education and health, especially in the early education and childcare sector.
Rachel Griffith
Rachel is Research Director and Professor at the University of Manchester. She was made a Dame for services to economic policy and education in 2021.
Paul Johnson
Paul has been the Director of the IFS since 2011. He is also currently visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London.
Sonya Krutikova
Sonya Krutikova is a Professor of Economics at Manchester University and IFS Deputy Research Director.
Martin O'Connell
Martin, previously Deputy Research Director, is a Research Fellow at IFS and Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin.
Jonathan Shaw
Jonathan is a Research Fellow at the IFS and a Technical Specialist in the Economics Department at the Financial Conduct Authority.
Kate Smith
Kate is an IFS Research Fellow and an Assistant Professor at LSE, interested in public finance, industrial organisation and applied microeconomics.
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