Peter Levell is an Associate Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in London and a CEPR research affiliate. He obtained his PhD in economics from University College London in 2019.
His work focuses on understanding the spending and labour supply decisions of individual households. His research has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including Econometrica, the Journal of Public Economics and AEJ:Economic Policy.
He is a co-organiser of the "Micro and Macro Implications of Household Behaviour and Financial Decision-Making" seminar series. He has also written on the measurement and impact of inflation and am a member of the Office for National Statistics Technical Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices.
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Cheapflation and the rise of inflation inequality in 2021-2023
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- Inflation 
- Poverty and Income Inequality
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Changing views on trade’s impact on inequality in wealthy countries
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- International trade 
- Poverty and Income Inequality
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Potential consequences of post-Brexit trade barriers for earnings inequality in the UK
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- International trade 
- Poverty and Income Inequality
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Aggregating labour supply elasticities: The importance of heterogeneity
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- Labour Markets 
- Taxation