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This presentation was made at a workshop held at the Institute for Fiscal Studies about resource allocation within households in March 2012.
Authors

CPP Co-Director
Rachel is Research Director and Professor at the University of Manchester. She was made a Dame for services to economic policy and education in 2021.

Research Fellow University College London
Valerie, a Research Fellow of the IFS, is a Reader at the University College London, whose research is focused on modelling intra-household behaviour.

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
Wenchao is an Assistant Professor at the University of Sussex and an IFS Research Associate.
Presentation details
- DOI
- 10.1920/ps.ifs.2024.0089
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
Crossley, T et al. (2012). 'Parental investment in child nutrition' [Presentation]. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/parental-investment-child-nutrition (accessed: 17 March 2025).
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