Dr Laura Abramovsky

Research Fellow Institute for Fiscal Studies

Laura is a Research Fellow of the IFS. Her current work focuses on tax and social protection policy and programme evaluation in developing countries. She is also a Research Associate with ODI, collaborating with the Development and Public Finance team.

She works closely with and is one of the founders of the Centre for Tax Analysis in Developing Countries (TAXDEV), delivered jointly by IFS and ODI since 2018. This programme aims at generating new research, analysis and in-country analytical capacity in tax and benefit policy and administration in (or of relevance to) lower- and middle-income countries. More recently she has focused on the role of tax and transfers in shaping income and time use gaps between genders across countries with different levels of development. She has also been involved in a range of programme evaluations, including around sanitation and water.
 

 

Education

PhD Economics, University College London, 2015

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

BA (summa cum laude) Economics, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2000

Contact

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0000-0002-0698-9564

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    Sanitation marketing in Nigeria

    Journal article World Development

    We evaluate the effectiveness of a sanitation marketing intervention aimed at increasing the supply of improved toilet products in rural Nigeria

    28 June 2025

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    ADBI-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Roundtable on Sanitation and Development

    Event 20 April 2021 at 02:00 <p>Please see above for details on how to watch this event online.</p>
    Sanitation gaps are a global problem that continue to affect large segments of developing Asia and the Pacific, despite the considerable progress of efforts to address it in recent decades. The COVID-19 crisis has further increased the importance of improving inclusive sanitation access and the lives of targeted users, especially across poor areas and vulnerable groups.
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    Evidence on how to improve WASH infrastructure in Nigeria

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    This webinar, co-organised by the Federal Ministry of Water Resources (FMWR), Covenant University (Nigeria), The World Bank, Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL, UK), and IFS, aimed to provide a platform for a deep dive on relevant evidence and lessons learnt from Nigeria and elsewhere to inform the Clean Nigeria Campaign.

    25 January 2021

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    Unpacking piped water consumption subsidies: Who benefits? New evidence from 10 countries

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    This paper provides new evidence on the recent performance of piped water consumption subsidies in terms of pro-poor targeting for 10 low- and middle-income countries around the world. Our results suggest that in these countries, existing tariff structures fall well short of recovering the costs of service provision, and that, moreover, the resulting subsidies largely fail to achieve the goal of improving the accessibility and affordability of piped water among the poor.

    20 July 2020

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    Complementarities in the Production of Child Health

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    This paper estimates flexible child health production functions to investigate whether better water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices make nutrition intake more productive for children aged 6-24 months.

    14 June 2019

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    Sustainable Total Sanitation in Nigeria

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    In November 2018, Nigeria declared that its water supply, sanitation and hygiene sector was in crisis. This was partly prompted by the fact that the country has struggled to make progress towards ending open defecation. Almost one in four Nigerians – around 50 million people – defecates in open areas.

    11 June 2019

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    Community matters: heterogenous impacts of a sanitation intervention

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    We study the effectiveness of a community-level information intervention aimed at reducing open defecation (OD) and increasing sanitation investments in Nigeria. The results of a cluster-randomized control trial conducted in 247 communities between 2014 and 2018 suggest that average impacts are exiguous.

    6 June 2019