Rachel Griffith is Research Director of the IFS, Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester, a Fellow of the British Academy, Editor of the Economic Journal and a Research Fellow of CEPR. Rachel won the Birgit Grodal award in 2014 and was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2015 for services to economic policy. Her research considers the relationship between government policy and economic performance. Her specific interests relate to the food industry, innovation and productivity.
The earnings of workers in the bottom part of the earnings distribution have performed poorly in recent decades across many countries. In the UK, the lowest-earning working households tod...
Most undergraduate students in the UK who find their way into an economics degree do so through studying A-level economics in their last two years of secondary school. Although no univers...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980, and that most of the world's population now live in countries where obesity and bein...
