Imran Rasul
@imranrasul3
Prof of Economics UCL.
Director CPP@TheIFS, Co-Director@StoneEcon_UCL, Co-President BREAD. Fellow BA, AcSS, ES; YJ Award, OBE. 2 kids+2 cats.
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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…
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…
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