Pleased to share this new report co-authored with TaxDev colleagues on microsimulation models and fiscal incidence analysis in L&MICs. Hopefully a useful resource for researchers and policymakers generating and using evidence to inform better policy design, fostering collaboration.

I have a new review article w/ Alessandra Voena on women's power in the household in LMICs (just submitted to JEL). I've written ~6 review articles, and I think this is the best one. We make some useful conceptual points IMO. But you decide! Comments welcome! seemajayachandran.com/womens_power...

📢 Sanitation Infrastructure On Thursday July 10th, Britta Augsburg @theifs.bsky.social, Molly Lipscomb ‪@uvabatten.bsky.social‬ & ‪@afosterri.org‬ will outline key takeaways for policy from their forthcoming #VoxDevLit at our launch event. Register here: cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🆕 How Peru transformed natural resource wealth into local economic development Today on VoxDev, Antonella Bancalari (Institute for Fiscal Studies) & Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway, University of London) outline their research on Peru: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

Join us on 31 March as we explore how Latin American finance ministries incorporate evidence into budgets and crisis response. Live online with simultaneous Spanish/English translation. Register now: buff.ly/bFiB5e5 🔗

NEW #IFSWorkingPaper: The menopause "penalty" 📗 @gabriconti.bsky.social‬, @rginja.bsky.social, Petra Persson and @bartonwillage.com's paper finds that a menopause diagnosis leads to lasting drops in earnings and employment, alongside greater reliance on social transfers.

Tracking Impact in Development: A VoxDev - @j-pal.bsky.social Webinar On April 8th at 1pm (UK), @paddycarter.bsky.social @britishintinv.bsky.social, Aparna Krishnan & Arianna Legovini will discuss how development organisations can track their impact. Register here: cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"The biggest barriers to social mobility and children's wellbeing lie outside of schools." @missmc.bsky.social from our podcast on The Schools Bill. 🎧 Listen to the episode: ifs.org.uk/articles/sch...

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 CUNEF's department of Economics is opening new full-time research assistant positions for the next academic year. More info here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... (requires free login to EconJobMarket) If you want to gain experience in economics research, APPLY!

Fantastically clear from my colleagues on the reforms to inheritance tax on farms. Worth reading in their own precise words, but in sum: there’s no good reason to exempt agricultural land from inheritance tax (if we have one), and there’s better ways to support farmers (if that’s the aim).

One week until our IFS recruitment event for summer students We will be offering an opportunity to meet current staff, and ask questions about life at IFS and our recruitment process. Monday 2 December | 5-6pm | Online Register to attend here:

NEW #IFSWorkingPaper: Resource windfalls, public expenditures and local economies @bancalaria.bsky.social and @juanpablorud.bsky.social study whether transfers to local governments can stimulate economic activity in low income areas. Read here: ifs.org.uk/publications...