<p>New research published today by the IFS throws more light on the nature of the recent recession and its impact on households. It shows that the 2008-09 recession was different from the recessions of the 1980s and 1990s in the scale of the falls in household expenditure, in how long those falls have persisted and in the ways in which households have adjusted their spending.</p>
Authors
Research Fellow University of Oxford
Hamish is the James Meade Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College and a Research Fellow at IFS.
Research Fellow University of Michigan
Tom is a Research Fellow at IFS, a Research Professor for the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
Research Associate Yale University
Cormac is a Research Associate of the IFS, an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Yale University and Research Fellow at the NBER.
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