Research theme
Income Taxation
Analysis of personal income tax schedules, labour supply incentives, savings responses, and the design of progressive taxation.
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The lab integrates micro data, institutional detail, and quantitative macroeconomic modelling to study how policy shapes household behaviour, aggregate outcomes, and social welfare.
Research approach
Micro evidence, structural models, and policy design
The research agenda combines administrative and survey microdata with lifecycle and overlapping-generations models to evaluate taxation, transfers, pensions, health policy, and inequality.
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Micro-level evidence
Administrative records and household data are used to discipline model behaviour and policy simulations.
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Structural modelling
Lifecycle and overlapping-generations models quantify long-run responses to fiscal reforms.
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Policy evaluation
Distributional, welfare, and macro effects are studied jointly rather than in isolation.
Research themes
Six pillars of the lab's research agenda
These themes organise the lab's work on fiscal design, household heterogeneity, and long-run policy evaluation.
Research theme
Fiscal Progressivity
Measurement of the combined progressivity of taxes and transfers across income, age, wealth, and household structure.
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Welfare Transfers
Evaluation of family payments, means testing, and transfer design with attention to work incentives and welfare outcomes.
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Health Macroeconomics
Research on health shocks, insurance design, portfolio choice, and the interaction between health and wealth inequality.
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Retirement Financing
Work on pensions, superannuation, ageing economies, and the fiscal sustainability of retirement systems.
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Growth, Redistribution, and Inequality
Study of earnings dynamics, wealth dispersion, and intergenerational distribution using structural models and rich data.
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Publication
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