Research
Areas of research covered by the Institute include public finance and spending, pensions and saving, company taxation, consumer behaviour and poverty and inequality. Although most of the Institute's research is UK-focused, recent work has also looked at international development policies, for instance at education and nutrition programmes in Colombia.
The Institute is home to or a partner in the following research centres:
- Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP)
- Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions (CAYT)
- Centre for the Economics of Education
- Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies (EDePo)
- Tax Law Review Committee (TLRC)
- English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)
- Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)
- Centre for Economic Research on Ageing (CERA)
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