Peter Levell
Current
Positions
Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London
PhD student, University College London
Personal and
Contact Info.
Address:
Institute for Fiscal Studies
7 Ridgmount Street
London
WC1E 7AE
UK
Employment
Institute for Fiscal Studies, London
Phone: +44 (0)20 7291 4800
E-mail: peter l@ifs.org.uk
Website: http://www.ifs.org.uk/people/profile?id=452
Nationality: British
Research Economist (September 2009 - )
Education
University College London, UK, (October 2010 - present)
Ph.D. (part-time, in progress), Economics
London School of Economics, UK, (September 2008-August 2009)
MSc., Economics (Merit)
University College London, (September 2005- July 2008)
B.Sc., Economics (First class honours)
Awarded place on Dean’s List for Academic Excellence (Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences)
Publications
Journal articles
• Peter Levell, 2015, “Is the Carli Index flawed?: assessing the case for the new retail price index
RPIJ,” Journal of Royal Statistical Society Series A, 178, Part 2, pp. 1-34
• Andrew Leicester and Peter Levell, 2016, “Anti-smoking policies and smoker well-being: evidence
from Britain,” Fiscal Studies, Forthcoming
Working papers
• Peter Levell, October 2014, “Revealed preference and consumption behaviour at retirement,”
IFS Working Papers, W14/29, Institute for Fiscal Studies
• Peter Levell and Jonthan Shaw, January 2015, “Constructing full adult life-cycles from short
panels,” IFS Working Papers, W15/1, Institute for Fiscal Studies
• James Banks, Richard Blundell, Peter Levell and James Smith, March 2015, “Life-cycle consumption patterns at older ages in the US and the UK: can medical expenditures explain the
difference?,” IFS Working Papers, W15/12, Institute for Fiscal Studies
• Orazio Attanasio, Peter Levell, Hamish Low and Virginia Sanchez-Marcos, July 2015, “Aggregating Elasticities: Intensive and Extensive Margins of Female Labour Supply,” NBER Working
Paper No. 21315, NBER
• Peter Levell, Barra Roantree and Jonathan Shaw, September 2015, “Redistribution from a Lifetime Perspective,’ ’IFS Working Papers, W15/27, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Book chapters
• Thomas F Crossley, Andrew Leicester and Peter Levell, February 2010, “Fiscal Stimulus and
the Consumer,” Robert Chote, Carl Emmerson, and Jonathan Shaw, Eds., in IFS Green Budget
2010, London: IFS
• Andrew Leicester and Peter Levell, February 2011, “Environmental Policy,” in Mike Brewer, Carl
Emmerson, and Helen Miller, Eds., IFS Green Budget 2011, London: IFS
• Abigail Adams, Andrew Hood and Peter Levell, February 2014, “The squeeze on incomes,” in
Paul Johnson, Carl Emmerson, and Helen Miller, Eds., IFS Green Budget 2014, London: IFS
• Gary Barrett, Peter Levell and Kevin Milligan, “A comparison of micro and macro expenditure
measures across countries using differing survey methods,” in Christopher Carroll, Thomas F.
Crossley and John Sabelhaus, Eds., Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures,
Studies in Income and Wealth, Volume 74. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
• Laura Blow, Valerie Lechene and Peter Levell “Using the CE to model household demand,” in
Christopher Carroll, Thomas F. Crossley and John Sabelhaus, Eds., Improving the Measurement
of Consumer Expenditures, Studies in Income and Wealth, Volume 74. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2015.
• Peter Levell, Martin O’Connell and Kate Smith, February 2016, “Excise duties,” in Paul Johnson,
Carl Emmerson, Robert and Joyce, Eds., IFS Green Budget 2016, London: IFS
Selected other writings
• Paul Johnson, Andrew Leicester and Peter Levell, April 2010, “Environmental policy since 1997,”
IFS Briefing Notes, BN94
• Paul Johnson and Peter Levell, April 2010, “Environmental policy proposals,” IFS Briefing Notes,
BN101
• James Browne and Peter Levell, August 2010, “The distributional effect of tax and benefit reforms
to be introduced between June 2010 and April 2014: a revised assessment,” IFS Briefing Notes,
BN108
• Peter Levell and Zoe Oldfield, June 2011, “The spending patterns and inflation experience of
low-income households over the past decade,” IFS Reports, C119
• Andrew Leicester, Peter Levell and Imran Rasul, July 2012, “Tax and benefit policy: insights
from behavioural economics,” IFS Reports, C125
• Abigail Adams, and Peter Levell, November 2014, “Measuring poverty when inflation varies
across households,” Joseph Rowntree Foundation, London
Refereeing
Empirical Economics, Fiscal Studies, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Health Economics, Review of Income and Wealth
Computer skills
Languages: Fortran, Matlab, R
Packages: Stata
Typesetting: LyX
Awards
• Winner 1st Prize CRA Economics Essay Competition 2008
• Winner 1st Prize Deloitte Public Policy Essay Competition 2009
Languages
English (native), German (intermediate), Mandarin (HSK level 3)