Dave Innes

Join us and @RSMUK on 11 July @10am for the launch of new guidance on conducting economic evaluations in higher ed 📈 Enhance evaluation practices for your widening participation interventions with our evaluation framework 🤝 Sign up: taso.org.uk/event/economic…

@KatieSchmuecker @bbc5live Impressive you covered 2 of my niche interests - public finances and leeds coffee shops - in one tweet!

Listening to @bbc5live phone in following the chancellor’s statement and the guy from Flamingos Coffeehouse in Leeds is talking so much sense about the need for certainty to plan. They sell very fine coffee too!

@JoshMartin_econ Really interesting and important findings. Just one Q on this: By switching away from 'main reason' you presumably then have a non-exclusive set of reasons. Have you looked at what % of the rise the other reasons would account for for comparison?

There was a big rise in inactivity during the pandemic. Why? Official stats, by “main reason” for inactivity, suggest about half is long-term sickness. Our measure, by self-reported long-term sickness irrespective of main reason, can account for almost all of the increase. 8/13

New working paper on long-term sickness and labour market outcomes with @haskelecon imperial.ac.uk/people/j.haske… Amongst other things we explore the rise of in-work long-term sickness, changes during the pandemic, and implications for the future. A thread 🧵 on the paper 1/13

In the "nerding out" part: the end of the elephant. Between 2008 and 2018, incomes of the globally poor have increased in percentage terms much more than the incomes of the globally rich. The global Gini has gone down.

@gemmatetlow @RSMUK Thanks Gemma!

@dminnes @RSMUK Good luck with the new job, Dave!

Some🚨personal news🚨: Today - after 6 and a half years - is my last day @jrf_uk. Its been a fab place to work, with brilliant colleagues, and I'm proud of lots we've achieved in that time.

@Helen_Barnard @jrf_uk Thanks Helen, will do!

@dminnes @jrf_uk 😢for us but 🎉for you & stay in touch.

@JeevunSandher @RSMUK Thanks Jeevun! I'm very happy you did a stint with us too... I'm sure our paths with cross again at some point!

@dminnes @RSMUK Good luck and I'm sure you'll be sorely missed at JRF! I personally am *very* happy you worked there :-)

@billwells_1 @ianmulheirn @jrf_uk You'll have to pick this bone with someone else at JRF now Bill!

@dminnes @ianmulheirn @jrf_uk Good luck. Hope your work with/for civil service helps to clarify difference between poverty & inequality. [And that we stop calling inequality poverty.]

@juliaunwin @jrf_uk Thank Julia. I know - time flies!

@ianmulheirn @jrf_uk Thanks Ian. And yes - absolutely - just more in the background (mainly for civil service clients)

@dminnes @jrf_uk Congrats Dave - sorry to see you go. will you still be doing public policy work?

Some initial thoughts on this Budget (and yes, it was a budget). duncanweldon.substack.com/p/the-mini-bud…

Credit is due to Rishi Sunak for listening, recognising he hadn't provided enough support for those hardest hit by the rising cost of living, and coming back with a big, well-targeted package. See @R_McDonald_'s thread on what that will mean for low income families:

NEW: JRF responds to the Chancellor's measures on the cost of living 👇 💬 CEO @PaulKissack: "It is right to target help at those on low incomes, who are least able to bear the shock of soaring energy bills."

@nyecominetti That was our big worry. Very good news he's confirmed next year's uprating today

What a relief - Chancellor has funnelled most of the support to low-income families and used benefits to do so - will be hugely positive news for so many families struggling to get by this year.

Summary: Chancellor almost doubles the level of energy support to over £30bn (£15bn extra today), and fills the huge gap in previous announcements with large targeted support for those hardest hit. Things to quibble with, but this is big and very welcome indeed

What might the Chancellor announce today to help with the cost of living, and what should he announce? TLDR: social security is designed to get money quickly to people who need it. Use it to provide some pain relief now & plan major surgery to make it more adequate long term 1/

Lots of speculation about what more the will do to help with cost of living. Various proposals flying around, some of which I found hard to understand the rationale behind. So I have pulled together my take on what govt can/can't/should/shouldn't do instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/r…