ICYMI: Earlier this week, we hosted a conversation on how innovations in fiscal policy and climate finance can promote equality and sustainability.
▶️ Watch the video here: https://t.co/EBhvfHu7dk
“En Argentina se hablaba mucho de atraso cambiario, aunque poco sobre productividad y competitividad”. Imperdible la entrevista a @juanpablorud. Rigor académico, claridad conceptual y evitar lugares comunes. Tres máximas a seguir.
"Históricamente Argentina protege trabajos específicos, cuando lo que en realidad debería proteger es a los trabajadores"
Gran nota del tanito Rud.
https://t.co/TD97PnebzK
We're recruiting for a new Associate Director to lead our tax research.
This is a job that I did & absolutely loved. A chance to work with brilliant people, lead interesting research & inform UK policy.
If you're an economist with tax expertise, we'd love to hear from you
🚨 Call for papers!
The second edition of the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) will be in November in London.
We co-organize it with @clpennec and @cevatgirayaksoy and the submission deadline is July 4, 2025. Apply here (and RT!):
https://t.co/r0URrfgkKm
🚨Research public finance issues in developing countries?
Based in London or fancy a trip to London this Autumn?
Submit your papers to the @theIFS ODI Global @WorldBank conference.
Covers revenue and spending side of ledger.
Great speakers. Effective chairs. Networking.✅
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How Peru transformed natural resource wealth into local economic development
Last month on VoxDev, @BancalariA (@TheIFS) & @juanpablorud (@RHULECON) outlined their research on Peru: https://t.co/DQtsLuNcEd
The joint @TheIFS ODI Global #TaxDev programme is expanding to Kenya 🇰🇪.
Our work focuses on jointly improving the evidence-base for tax policy in partner countries, including
⚙️New data and modelling tools
⁉️Research addressing key questions
💁♂️Joint work and skills development
🆕 How Peru transformed natural resource wealth into local economic development
Last week on VoxDev, @BancalariA (@TheIFS) and @juanpablorud (@RHULECON) outlined their research on Peru: https://t.co/DQtsLuNcEd
🚨Applications are now open for the 2025 Berkeley Stone center Summer School on inequality
A unique program geared towards students at the beginning of their PhD, taught by leading scholars in the field, all costs covered !
Apply now
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https://t.co/wRao9AOgF5
As the debate about inheritance tax & farms rumbles on, here's an explainer on the changes & who will be affected.
We argue: if there's an inheritance tax, it should be applied to all assets. And...
with @David_Sturrock & @StuartAdam_IFS
https://t.co/5xeXLRkUdS
🚨 Excited to share my job market paper!
“Cash transfers and women’s labour supply: evidence from the world’s largest programme” (https://t.co/o9m1txSOzH)
It has been awarded the EEA/UniCredit Foundation’s Best JMP Award.
A thread summarising my findings 👇(1/13)
📢 New Working Paper Alert! 🧵#EconTwitter
“Resource Windfalls, Public Expenditures, and Local Economies” with @juanpablorud
We study whether inter-governmental transfers to local governments can stimulate economic activity.
👉 https://t.co/ql7pDlVtlu
Mucho trabajo, pasión, y dedicación detrás de este fabuloso line-up de speakers. Un workshop regionalmente internacional; internacionalmente regional 😁 🇦🇷🇨🇱🇺🇾🇲🇽🇬🇧 Investigadores de Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico y UK‼️
Inscribite, Venite & #Retuit!📝 https://t.co/vX66o0VfN3
And here it is ...
Our podcast explaining what the budget means for inheritance tax on farms, businesses and pensions
You can hear why we think the moves are a step in the right direction. In short: IF you're going to have an IHT, it makes sense to apply t broadly
Recently accepted to REStud, ``The Child Penalty Atlas" quantifies the unequal effects of parenthood on men and women’s employment in 134 countries.
From Henrik Kleven, @landais_camille & @LeiteMariante:
https://t.co/Ql5vKcKIia
#Fertility, #Childcare, #Children, #Youth
NEW: The closure of youth clubs in the 2010s led to increased offending and worse GSCE results.
Teenagers entitled to free school meals were most affected.
Read @carmenvillaecon’s briefing: https://t.co/0tdukJu8Sj
Read the working paper: https://t.co/7AVbYRUkQy
🚨 Nuevo documento de trabajo que analiza la desigualdad de género en América Latina, poniendo el foco en dos áreas claves: educación y trabajo.
Autoras: @InesBerniell, @raquel1fernan & Sonya Krutikova
https://t.co/alad4DcRDW
🚨 Read our NEW blogpost with @kylemcnabb & @hazelgranger_1 looking at the experience of Argentina, Philippines & Rwanda in reforming the design, governance & evaluation of tax incentives, based on policymakers' reflections.
Read in full:
https://t.co/fSWoqwmlJZ
A short 🧵⬇️