We at @theIFS have spent the last five weeks analysing manifestos and responding to the main parties' policy announcements. 📊 With polling day approaching, here's where you can read up on our key election analysis: [THREAD: 1/8]

This survey closes today👇 Provide feedback about how to improve the publication process in economics!

A great opportunity for someone to come join us at IFS and work on an ongoing RCT aimed to prevent youth violence in London. Application deadline is July 26th.

Exciting news! A new Economic Advisory Council, chaired by John Van Reenen and including Anna Valero, of Centre for Economic Performance & Programme on Innovation and Diffusion theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Tremendous news for UK Plc. Can think of no one better than John to chair the Council, given his vast expertise on innovation, growth, firms and green technologies. Thanks to John, Anna and others to be willing to take such roles for public service.

New WP: on the returns to worker skills during the pandemic. Combines 10-year panel data on workers and firms to study how each reacted to the pandemic shock. With the fantastic team of Livia Alfonsi Vittorio Bassi and Elena Spadini Comments welcome! bit.ly/Covidworkers

Today Oxford Academic publishes the evidence phase of our Inequality: IFS Deaton Review (funded by Nuffield Foundation), a comprehensive review of inequalities across a multitude of topics. 📊Here’s a thread of just some key charts from the review, showing the breadth of its evidence:

Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review Institute for Fiscal Studies The whole evidence volume of the Review, with clickable links to the remarkable set of commissioned articles across the many dimensions of inequality, now published open access by OUP, follow the link at ifs.org.uk/inequality/dir…

Delighted to announce the BREAD-International Growth Centre Virtual PhD course on Cities is now open: 10 terrific lectures planned. Please RT & encourage interested students to register: open to all. Details and registration link here: bit.ly/BREAD_IGC_Urba… Pascaline Dupas Dean Yang

🚨New WP!🚨 Were skilled &unskilled workers differentially impacted by the pandemic? Why? Differential exposure &/or resilience? Are returns to skills maintained by the same mechanisms in good & bad times? ➡️bit.ly/Covidworkers w/Vittorio Bassi @imranrasul3 Elena Spadini

🚨New Institute for Fiscal Studies research takes a 25-year view of housing supply in England: 🏡Just how bad is England at building new homes where they are needed? 🏡What holds back the response of housing supply in some areas? Let's take a look... 1/

What an Olympic story. Follow your dreams. Talent is everywhere. Sometimes we just need to look harder to find it. Many congratulations to Olympians Arshad Nadeem Neeraj Chopra & Anderson Peters Oly #JavelinThrow bit.ly/Olympics_Javel…

In Uganda, the returns to vocational training survive the pandemic, as skilled workers gain more sector-specific experience pre-shock and switch firms more easily during the crisis, from Livia Alfonsi, Vittorio Bassi, @imranrasul3, and Elena Spadini nber.org/papers/w32785

🆕 What is the role of firm-level productivity in driving sustainable economic growth in LMICs? International Growth Centre evidence paper by David Atkin, Stefano Caria, Dave Donaldson, Namrata Kala, Imran Rasul, Matthieu Teachout, Eric Verhoogen & Chris Woodruff: theigc.org/publications/i…

NEW: Cheaper grocery products rose in price much faster than expensive products between 2021 and 2023. This ‘cheapflation’ meant poorer households were hit much harder by inflation than official figures show. THREAD on Tao Chen Peter Levell & Martin O'Connell’s paper: [1/8]

Check out this great summary of my paper on the impacts of closing 70% police stations in London ⬇️⬇️

On our way home from a wonderfully relaxing family time in Tinos, Greece. Great food, beaches and the discovery of Anglo-Greco scrabble. HT ⁦Alex Theloudis⁩ 🏖️🧘🏼‍♂️

``Social interactions determine economic behaviour. We show how to recover social network structures from panel data that has no actual information on social ties between agents." From Aureo de Paula, Imran Rasul and Pedro CL Souza: restud.com/identifying-ne…

I am very happy to see this out! 🎉 Check also the R programmes and replication files on Github (shorturl.at/hO24S) or at the The Review of Economic Studies. For a thread on this paper, check out my earlier post (linked below)! 1/2

Keynote address by Attila Lindner on "Minimum Wages in the 21st century" at #eale2024. Great slide with a summary of minimum wage evidence. Increases with output prices are an important passthrough mechanism. #EconTwitter