IFS economists are set to present at a special session at the Royal Economic Society's Annual Conference this year on the IFS Deaton Review: Inequalities in the 21st Century.
IFS Director Paul Johnson and IFS Senior Research Economist Xiaowei Xu will be joined by fellow key contributors to the review Kate Smith (LSE and IFS) and Tim Besley (LSE), for presentations on the central issues in the debate on inequalities, particularly which inequalities are of the greatest concern and how they might be addressed. The session will take place 16:15 - 17:30 on Monday 30th June, and the presentations will be followed by an audience Q&A chaired by Dame Sharon White.
Presenters:
Paul Johnson (IFS): Changing inequalities in the UK
Xiaowei Xu (IFS): Geographic inequality and opportunity
Kate Smith (LSE): Top income inequality and taxation
Sir Tim Besley (LSE): The Political Economy of Predistribution
The IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities is funded by the Nuffield Foundation. The first volume of the review, Dimensions of Inequality, has been published by Oxford Open Economics and is available to read here.
More information about how to attend the session and the conference is available on the Royal Economic Society's website here.
Authors
Xiaowei Xu
Xiaowei joined the IFS in 2018 and works in the Income, Work and Welfare sector.
Kate Smith
Kate is an IFS Research Fellow and an Assistant Professor at LSE, interested in public finance, industrial organisation and applied microeconomics.
Tim Besley
Timothy is a Research Associate at the IFS and a Professor of Economics and Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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