Iva Valentinova Tasseva

I am an Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.  I previously worked as a researcher at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex, where I completed my PhD in Economics.

I am a member of the Welfare and Policy society (WAP). I am an invited expert at the Steering Committee for the "Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and Economic and Social Research Institute joint Research Programme 2023-2024", with a focus on Economic Equality. I was previously an elected member of the EUROMOD Scientific Advisory Board. 

My research interests include:

• inequality and household living standards

• the redistributive effects of income tax and social security benefit policies

• tax-benefit microsimulation

• measurement errors in the income reports in household surveys

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Contact:  i.tasseva "at" lse.ac.uk

Twitter: @IvaTasseva

New Working Paper: 

Errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings: Austria and the United Kingdom compared (with  Christopher R. Bollinger, Stephen P. Jenkins and Fernando Rios-Avila )

We contribute new cross-national evidence about the nature of measurement errors in employment earnings, fitting the same error components model to harmonised earnings data for Austria and the UK. The model allows for measurement error in the administrative data and linkage error as well as survey measurement error. We find several cross-national similarities in error structure but also intriguing differences in error component probabilities, means, and dispersions.