>
> Dear Colleagues
>
> **Microdata Methods and Practice: Perspectives and Priorities**
>
> 6th December 2001
>
> We would like to invite you to a conference to launch a new teaching and
> research centre, the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap).
> The centre, a joint venture by IFS and the Department of Economics,
> University College London is being funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Its aims
> are to stimulate development of microdata methods and practice and to
> encourage their application to substantive social science issues. It will
> offer courses on microdata methods and practice, catering both for
> academics and policy-makers.
>
> The inaugural conference will be held on Thursday 6th December 2001 at the
> Royal Society of the Arts in London.
>
> Speakers at the conference will include Professor James Heckman (University
> of Chicago), Professor Daniel McFadden (University of California, Berkeley),
> Baroness Sarah Hogg (Chairman, Frontier Economics), Susan Linacre (Director
> of Methodology, Office for National Statistics), Andrew Dilnot, (Director,
> IFS) and Sir Andrew Turnbull (Permanent Secretary to the Treasury).
>
> For more details, see the centre's website at
> http://cemmap.ifs.org.uk/launch.shtml
>
> Attendance at the conference will be free of charge and lunch will be
> provided. If you would like to come, please contact us at [log in to unmask]
> - places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served
> basis. Please do contact me if you have any questions about the conference
> or the work of the centre.
>
> Best wishes
> Emma Hyman
>
>
>
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> Emma Hyman
> Marketing and Publicity Officer
> Institute for Fiscal Studies
> 7 Ridgmount Street
> London WC1E 7AE
>
> tel +44 (0) 20 7291 4850
> fax +44 (0) 20 7323 4780
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