These are the key headlines from two new pieces of research published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and due to be presented today as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science.

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    Melanie Luhrmann
    Melanie Lührmann

    Research Fellow Royal Holloway, University of London

    Melanie joined the Institute for Fiscal Studies in 2006 as a Research Fellow and she is a Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London.

    Martin O'Connell
    Martin O'Connell

    Research Fellow University of Wisconsin

    Martin, previously Deputy Research Director, is a Research Fellow at IFS and Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin.

    Kate Smith
    Kate Smith

    Research Fellow London School of Economics

    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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