Authors
Richard Blundell
CPP Co-Director
Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.
Costas Meghir
Research Fellow Yale University
Costas is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Visiting Professor at University College London.
Ian Walker
Elizabeth Symons
Suggested citation
Blundell, R et al. (1988). 'Labour supply specification and the evaluation of tax reforms' (1988)
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