Ben joined the IFS in 2019. He works on topics across public economics, the economics of education and applied econometrics. His main research areas are tax and social protection in developing countries, higher education, and dynamic discrete choice models. He leads the Ethiopia country programme at the Centre for Tax Analysis in Developing Countries (TaxDev).
Education
DPhil Economics, University of Oxford, 2021
MPhil Economics, University of Oxford, 2016
BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics (First Class), University of Oxford, 2013
In the last decade, there have been significant cuts to spending on adult education and large falls in the numbers of adult learners, particularly amongst those taking low-level qualifications.
We investigate variation in early-career earnings by degree class outcome using the Department for Education’s Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset.
