Kate Smith is an Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She received her PhD from University College London in 2022. Her research interests are in public finance, industrial organisation and applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on tax policy.

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Top income inequality and tax policy
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- Poverty and Income Inequality 
- Taxation

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Alcohol price floors and their effect on heavy drinking
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- Health Economics

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Spending dynamics and panic buying during the COVID-19 first wave
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- COVID-19

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A new year, a new you?
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- Health Economics

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Designing alcohol taxes: Evidence from the UK market
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- Health Economics 
- Taxation