LAURA EMILY BLOW
Senior Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Education and employment
2008Senior Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies
2002-2007 Programme Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
2002
Programme Coordinator, Institute for Fiscal Studies
1997-2002 Senior Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies
1994-1997 Research Officer, Institute for Fiscal Studies
1991-1992 Research Officer, Bank of England
2001Ph.D. Economics, University College, London
1992-1994 M.Phil. Economics, Merton College, Oxford University
1988-1991 BA (Hons) Economics, King’s College, Cambridge (First Class)
Research grants awarded
‘Marriage and consumption’ with M. Browning and M. Ejrnaes (ESRC (ES/J005754/1) 20122014)
‘Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group’ (ESRC/Defra, 2010-2013)
‘Heat or eat? An empirical analysis of cold weather income support programs’ with T. Beatty and
T. Crossley (Nuffield Foundation, 2009-2010)
‘Do the Poor Pay More?’ (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2009-2010)
‘Power and Predictive Success in Revealed Preference Tests’ with T. Beatty and I. Crawford
(ESRC (RES-000-22-3770) 2009-2010)
‘Household responses to the price of car travel - a distributional analysis’ (Esmée Fairbairn
Foundation 2009-2010)
‘The Willingness to Pay For Innovative Consumer Products’ with I. Crawford (ESRC (RES-0023-1416) 2005-2008)
Housing Expenditures and Housing Welfare with L. Nesheim (ESRC (RES-000-23-1448) 20052008)
‘Consumption Booms and Busts’ with O. Attanasio (Bank of England 2003-2004)
‘Parental background and child outcomes: how much does income matter and what else matters?’
with A. Goodman, I. Walker and F. Windmeijer (HM Treasury Evidence Based Policy Fund
2002-2004)
Selected publications
‘Cash by any other name? Evidence on labeling from the UK Winter Fuel Payment’ (with T.
Beatty, T. Crossley and C. O’Dea), Journal of Public Economics, Volume 118, October 2014, pp.
86-96
‘Never mind the hyperbolics: nonparametric analysis of time-inconsistent preferences’ (with M.
Browning and I. Crawford), IFS Working Paper W14/17, 2014
‘Is there a ‘heat-or-eat’ trade-off in the UK?’ (with T. Beatty and T. Crossley), Journal of the Royal
Statistical Society: Series A, 177, Part 1, pp. 281-294, 2014
‘Using the CE to Model Household Demand’ (with V. Lechene and P. Levell), in Improving the
Measurement of Consumer Expenditures (C. Carroll, T. Crossley, and J. Sabelhaus, editors), 2014,
NBER Book Series Studies in Income and Wealth, University of Chicago Press
‘Who Benefits from Child Benefit?’ (with I. Walker and Y. Zhu), Economic Inquiry, no.
doi: 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2010.00348.x, 2010
‘Dynamic housing expenditures and household welfare’ (with L. Nesheim), CEMMAP Working
Paper CWP04/09, 2009
‘A retail price index including the shadow price of owner occupied housing’ (with L. Nesheim),
CEMMAP Working Paper CWP03/09, 2009
‘Revealed Preference Methods for the Consumer Characteristics Model’ (with M. Browning and I.
Crawford), Review of Economic Studies, vol 75, pp. 371-389, 2008
‘Booms and busts: consumption, house prices and expectations’ (with O. Attanasio, R. Hamilton
and A. Leicester), Economica, 75(299), 2008
‘Parental income and children’s smoking behaviour: evidence from the British Household Panel
Survey’ (with A. Leicester and F. Windmeijer), IFS Working Paper, W05/10, 2005
‘Consumption trends in the UK 1975-1999’ (with A. Leicester and Z. Oldfield), IFS Reports, R65,
2004
‘Methodological issues in the analysis of consumer demand patterns over time and across
countries’ (with A. Kalwij and J. Ruiz-Castillo), AIAS, Amsterdam, 2003
‘Household expenditure patterns in the United Kingdom’, DEMPATEM paper, 2003
‘Demographics in demand systems’, IFS Working Paper W03/18, 2003
‘Explaining trends in household spending’, IFS Working Paper W03/06, 2003
‘A nonparametric method for valuing new goods’ (with I. Crawford), European Central Bank
Working Paper No. 143, 2002
‘Deadweight loss and taxation of unearned income: evidence from tax records of the UK self
employed’ (with I. Preston), 2002, IFS Working Paper 02/15
‘The cost of living with the RPI: Substitution bias in the UK Retail Prices Index’ (with I.
Crawford), Economic Journal, 2001, 111
‘Cost-of-living indices and revealed preference’ (with I. Crawford), (1999), IFS Report 60
‘Valuing Quality’ (with I. Crawford), (1999), IFS Working Paper W99/15
‘A quality-constant price index for new cars in the UK, 1986 to 1995’ (with I. Crawford), (1998),
IFS Working Paper 98/12