IFS International Research Fellow Olympia Bover wins Rei Jaume I Prize

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Gender norms, violence and adolescent girls’ trajectories: Evidence from India

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Changing the attitudes and behaviours of those enforcing restrictive societal norms is critical for meaningful improvements in women’s wellbeing.

24 October 2022

How could the Chancellor raise more tax?

podcast

What options does the Chancellor have for raising taxes in the October Budget?

28 August 2024

Why are universities in financial trouble?

podcast

Why are universities struggling, what happens if they go bust and what can government do to help? What other challenges do the HE and FE sectors face?

21 August 2024

Policy analysis

IFS Deputy Director Carl Emmerson appointed to the UK Statistics Authority Methodological Assurance Review Panel

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Deputy Director Carl Emmerson has been appointed to the Methodological Assurance Review Panel.

14 April 2023

ABC of SV: Limited Information Likelihood Inference in Stochastic Volatility Jump-Diffusion Models

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We develop novel methods for estimation and filtering of continuous-time models with stochastic volatility and jumps using so-called Approximate Bayesian Compu- tation which build likelihoods based on limited information.

12 August 2014

Assessing the economic benefits of education: reconciling microeconomic and macroeconomic approaches

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This CAYT report discusses the strengths and limitations of several approaches to assessing the effect of education on productivity.

14 March 2013

Academic research

Focal pricing and pass-through

working paper

I show that the adoption and extent of focal pricing practices in an industry in general do not lower average pass-through of input cost changes.

21 August 2024

Estimating intra-household sharing from time-use data

working paper

Estimating intra-household sharing is crucial to understanding overall inequality. However, expenditure data is almost always at the household level.

19 July 2024

Production function estimation using subjective expectations data

working paper

Implementing a range of production function estimators on UK data, we find our results are similar to or more credible than widely-used alternatives.

11 July 2024