Dr Imran Rasul

CPP Director, IFS Research Director

Imran Rasul is Professor of Economics at University College London, co-director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and research co-director of the Entrepreneurship Research Group of the International Growth Centre. His research interests include labor, development and public economics and his work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica and the Review of Economic Studies. He is currently managing editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, and he been a co-editor and director of the Review of Economic Studies (2009-17). He was awarded the 2007 IZA Young Economist Prize, the 2008 CESIfo Distinguished Affiliate Award, an ERC-starter grant in 2012, and a British Academy Mid-career Fellowship in 2018.

Education

PhD Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2003

MPhil Economics, University of Oxford, 1997

BSc Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1995

Contact

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Website
http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpimr/
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0000-0001-7652-0705

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The effects of coronavirus on household finances and financial distress

Report

In this report, we use a novel source of real-time data on households’ finances from Money Dashboard, a budgeting app, to explore the impacts of the crisis so far on earnings, incomes and financial distress, and how they are evolving. We complement this with household survey data to explain and verify the key trends.

29 June 2020

The geography of the COVID-19 crisis in England

Report

The COVID-19 crisis has affected every part of the country – and indeed many other countries. What sets this crisis apart is the many different ways that it is impacting families: while the virus itself is primarily a public health issue, the unprecedented responses it has necessitated mean that this is also very much an economic and a social crisis.

15 June 2020

Differences between key workers

Report
We analyse how key workers in different sectors differ in terms of their demographics and their working conditions.

23 April 2020

Keeping key workers working: the role of pre-school childcare

Comment

An important part of the UK policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been to try to help ensure key workers with children have access to sufficient childcare. Children of key workers are allowed to continue attending school and childcare settings, and both schools and early years providers are working to ensure wraparound care outside of school hours. Non-working partners, or those working from home, are also expected to provide childcare for key workers in some families.

2 April 2020

Hospital workers putting on PPE

Key workers: key facts and questions

Comment

In this observation, we set out some of the most important facts about key workers to help inform the evolving policy response to COVID-19.

20 March 2020

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IFS co-director Imran Rasul awarded prestigious Yrjö Jahnsson Award

Announcement

IFS researcher and co-director of the ESRC Centre for Public Policy (CPP) at IFS, Imran Rasul, has been awarded the prestigious Yrjö Jahnsson prize for his work on the role of social relationships in economics. Imran, who is also a professor at University College London, receives the 2019 award...

8 April 2019

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Racial and ethnic sentencing differentials in the federal criminal justice system

Journal article

We add to the debate by examining the robustness of racial/ethnic sentencing gaps, by gender, when allowing for selection on unobservables. We do so in the context of federal criminal cases, considering 250,000 cases, and using a dataset containing a rich set of covariates relating to defendant and legal characteristics of cases.

4 April 2019

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Consumption and Investment in Resource Pooling Family Networks

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This article examines a novel motive for resource pooling in family networks in rural economies: to relax credit constraints and facilitate investment in non‐collateraliseable assets for which credit market imperfections are most binding.

15 November 2018

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Recovering social networks from panel data: identification, simulations and an application

Working Paper

It is almost self-evident that social interactions can determine economic behavior and outcomes. Yet, information on social ties does not exist in most publicly available and widely used datasets. We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between agents.

8 October 2018

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Family networks and healthy behaviour: evidence from Nepal

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This paper uses data from a cluster randomised trial of a participatory learning and action cycle (PLA) through women’s groups, to assess the role of extended family networks as a determinant of gains in health knowledge and health practice.

22 May 2018

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Recovering social networks from panel data: identification, simulations and an application

Working Paper

It is almost self-evident that social interactions can determine economic behavior and outcomes. Yet, information on social ties does not exist in most publicly available and widely used datasets. We present methods to recover information on the entire structure of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between individuals.

2 March 2018