Imran Rasul
@ImranRasul3
Professor of Economics, University College London; Research Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies; Co-Director, Stone Centre at UCL Economics.
👇🏽come work with us @TheIFS on projects related to labor market skills!
📢Full-time predoc or part-time PhD RA position available at @TheIFS app.beapplied.com/apply/rgpraf0p… @ImranRasul3, @fpvinay, and I have a series of projects mapping skills in online job postings to labor market outcomes. Work at intersection of econ/data science/ML/AI. @econ_ra
Registrations for the @RoyalEconSoc Annual Public Lecture 2025 are now open! Aimed primarily at sixth form students, the APL provides an opportunity to watch internationally renowned economists present their research. Register here: buff.ly/QcKp977 #econstudent #lecture
Amazing rise of an underdog journal , using a new streamlined model of review and publication. Econometric Journal’s Impact factor is now the same as Econometrica’s. Please consider submitting your work there!
"I think we should be throwing the kitchen sink at this and in all policy areas including tax, finding ways to drive growth." Our new Director @HelenMiller_IFS spoke to @SophyRidgeSky @SkyNews on the economy and the Chancellor's options. 📺 Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=z78IKV…
20 years ago today we did this! How would I describe this time with Oriana? Like walking through a rainbow and finding the pot of gold. Celebrating in one of our favorite places on Earth, a land of fire and ice.🚀
Proud of our #SureStart work @TheIFS that we started in 2015 tx to @NuffieldFound (shorturl.at/QPoHY)—and that today it is at the basis of the new @GOVUK @bphillipsonMP Family Hubs announcement! ✨ Final report here: ifs.org.uk/publications/s… And don’t miss the podcast!👇🏻
NEW PODCAST: The policy that changed childhood in the UK @PJTheEconomist is joined by @ckfarquharson and @edballs to explore the legacy of Sure Start: what impact it had, how current services compare, and what we can learn from it. 🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/polic…
New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20388 Ideas Generation in Hierarchical Bureaucracies: Evidence from a Field Experiment and Qualitative Data M Fornasari, @ImranRasul3, D Rogger @WorldBank, M J. Williams @umich ow.ly/TJEw50Wie2k #CEPR_DE #CEPR_OE #CEPR_PoE #EconTwitter
Thanks for your keynote lecture too John - very inspiring - I have already been talking to colleagues about A-B-C testing today!
I just returned from the @Thriveevidence conference on scaling, hosted by @OPMglobal and @TheIFSby. Brilliant speakers trying to scale great ideas. Scaling has now become an object of study across the social sciences. Truly warms my heart. The big bonus was that two of my…
I just returned from the @Thriveevidence conference on scaling, hosted by @OPMglobal and @TheIFSby. Brilliant speakers trying to scale great ideas. Scaling has now become an object of study across the social sciences. Truly warms my heart. The big bonus was that two of my…
NEW: The tax system is making net zero more costly than it has to be. @LucieGadenne and Bobbie Upton’s new briefing demonstrates how emissions from electricity are taxed much more heavily than emissions from gas: [THREAD]
Just landed in the wonderful city of London. I am here for the @Thriveevidence conference on scaling early education programs, organized by @OPMglobal and @TheIFS. What a fantastic theme and important issue we will discuss. Tomorrow, I will present our recent study on using…
In the last quarter of 2024, the Crown Court had approximately 75,000 outstanding cases. What's causing this backlog of serious criminal cases and what's the solution? 🎙️ @PJTheEconomist, @BenZaranko and Cassia Rowland discuss in our latest podcast: ifs.org.uk/articles/whats…
Thanks to the @StoneEcon_UCL for funding this conference, which I had the pleasure to co-organise with the fantastic @anaisfabre_econ @carneiro_econ and @CamilleTerrier1.
The Stone Centre conference on Education and Inequality is underway, bringing together top economic minds to explore 12 papers across eight sessions.
Caterina Calsamiglia Costa (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) presents “Can Single-Sex Schooling Shape the Gender Differences in Response to Pressure?” to investigate where gender differences in performance under high-stakes settings originate. (1/5) @StoneEcon_UCL
Jack Mountjoy (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business) presents “College as a Marriage Market” to examine assortative marriage by college type and its economic consequences. (1/4) @StoneEcon_UCL
Anaïs Fabre (Institute for Fiscal Studies) presents “The Geography of Higher Education and Spatial Inequalities” to identify the sources of spatial education gaps. (1/5) @StoneEcon_UCL
Susan Dynarski (Harvard University) presents “Experimental Evidence on the Effects of College Quality on Educational Outcomes”, examining how a scholarship program closes college quality gaps between low- and high-income students. (1/5) @StoneEcon_UCL
Great talk by Peter Arcidiacono, presenting a big-picture framework to reconcile conflicting evidence on the impacts of affirmative action in college admissions. @StoneEcon_UCL
📢Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University), with Anh-Huy Nguyen and Zachary Bleemer, presents “Reconciling Results on Proposition 209.” They extend the structural model of Arcidiacono, Aucejo, and Hotz (AAH) (2016), using Post-Prop 209 data, modeling admissions, and constructing…
NEW PODCAST: What's gone wrong in the Crown Courts? Our new IFS Zooms In episode sees @PJTheEconomist, @BenZaranko and @instituteforgov's Cassia Rowland explore what's behind Crown Court delays in England and Wales. 🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/whats…
Our two-day conference next week with @Thriveevidence and @OPMglobal will discuss the latest research on how to successfully scale early childhood development programmes. 📅 Find out more about the conference and how to join online here: events.opml.com/ThriveScientif…