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CHILMOD: simulating tax and benefit policies for Chile

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Working alongside the Universidad de Chil and the Centre for Economics and Social Policy at the Universidad Mayor on building a tax-benefit microsimulation model, based on the EUROMOD platform, for Chile

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Investigating economic insecurity through microsimulation

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Investigating economic insecurity over the life course by means of dynamic microsimulation modelling.

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Simulation tax policy reforms and fiscal gains in the Andean Region

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Tax collection in the Andean region low compared with other countries in Latin America and with developed economies (OECD countries). The overall aim of the project is to assess the budgetary and distributional effects of tax policy reforms in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.

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Impact of the Universal Free School Meal policy

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Assessing the success of the Free School Meals policy in improving children’s educational achievement, social behaviour and health.

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Risk aversion, earnings uncertainty and labour supply

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Examining the relationship between the growth in insecure and unstable forms of employment and peoples’ behaviour in relation to seeking and remaining in work.