Professor Sir Richard Blundell, Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the IFS will be giving the Marshall Paley Lecture on inequalities.
Blundell, also Ricardo Chair of Political Economy at University College London, will discuss Dimensions of Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review, our programme of research recently published by Oxford University Press.
The Marshall Paley Lecture is funded by the University of Bristol School of Economics, and is hosted by Economics Observatory as part of the Festival of Economics 2024.
Find out more about the lecture and register to attend here.
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CPP Co-Director
Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.
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- Institute for Fiscal Studies
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