The inaugural IFS-NFS annual conference aims to provide a forum for broad discussion of ongoing research in empirical public and micro economics.

This academic workshop will take place at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. It will be in-person only and spaces are limited. Please email [email protected] to express your interest in attending.

Programme

Day 1 - Thursday 7th Nov
11:30 Welcome  
 Session 1  
11:40The Marriage Earnings
Gap
Luisa Wallosek
12:20Firm responses to
legislation on workplace sexual harassment
Sonia Bhalotra
13:00Lunch Break  
 Session 2  
14:00Shock Therapy for
Cleaner Growth: The Dynamics of Firms' R&D Investments
Katinka Holtsmark
14:40 Distributional effects of the
European energy crisis
Peter Levell
15:20 Tea and Coffee Break  
 Session 3  
15:40Audits in trust-based
systems
Oddbjørn Raaum 
16:20Tax noncompliance
penalty rate in Norway
Jakob Brounstein
17:00 Tea and Coffee Break  
 Session 4  
17:20 Disability insuranceMaxwell Kellogg
18:00 Why Does Raising the
Early Retirement Age Affect Employment?
Jonathan Cribb
 
Day 2 - Friday 7th Nov 
 Session 5 
09:30 Meta-analysis
of the elasticities of taxable income
Martin Eckhoff Andresen
10:10 House price booms and
intergenerational mobility
David Sturrock
10:50 Tea and Coffee Break  
 Session 6  
11:10Taxing corporate or
shareholder income
Kristoffer Berg
11:50 What trade-off? The equity
and efficiency gains to capital tax reform
Kate Smith
12:30Lunch Break  
 Session 7  
13:30 Payroll taxesRagnhild Camilla Schreiner
14:10Labor Market Tightness,
Inequality, and Workplace Amenities
Atilla Lindner
14:50 Tea and Coffee Break  
 Session 8  
15:10 Tax responses in models
where income effects matter
Gaute Torsvik
15:50How do wait times for
unemployment benefits affect consumption and labour
supply? Evidence from bank transaction data
Tom Waters

This event is funded by