Academic Publications

Journal articles:

• Bollinger, Christopher R. and Iva V. Tasseva (2023) "Income Source Confusion Using the SILC", Public Opinion Quarterly

• Jara, H. Xavier, Lourdes Montesdeoca and Iva Tasseva (2021) "The Role of Automatic Stabilizers and Emergency Tax–Benefit Policies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Ecuador",  The European Journal of Development Research 

  • • LSE COVID-19 blog: "Ecuador’s social protection system failed during the pandemic. It needs a rethink"

• Brewer, Mike and Iva Tasseva (2021) "Did the UK Policy Response to Covid-19 Protect Household Incomes?", The Journal of Economic Inequality 19: 433-458

  • • Insights 2022 (p. 22-24): "Did fiscal policy protect household incomes?"

• Cantó, Olga, Francesco Figari, Carlo Fiorio, Sarah Kuypers, Sarah Marchal, Marina Romaguera-de-la-Cruz, Iva Tasseva and Gerlinde Verbist (2021) "Welfare Resilience at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Selection of European Countries: Impact on Public Finance and Household Incomes", Review of Income and Wealth

  • • LSE COVID-19 blog: "In parts of Europe, income inequality barely changed at the onset of the pandemic" 

• Tasseva, Iva V. (2021) "The Changing Education Distribution and Income Inequality in Great Britain", Review of Income and Wealth 67(3): 659-683

• Paulus, Alari, and Iva Tasseva. (2020) "Europe through the Crisis: Discretionary Policy Changes and Automatic Stabilizers", Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 82: 864-888

• Paulus, Alari, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Tasseva. 2020. "Indexing out of Poverty? Fiscal Drag and Benefit Erosion in Cross-National Perspective", Review of Income and Wealth 66: 311-333

• Leventi, Chrysa, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Tasseva. 2019. "Improving Poverty Reduction in Europe: What Works Best Where?", Journal of European Social Policy 29(1): 29-43

• Atkinson, Anthony B., Chrysa Leventi, Brian Nolan, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Tasseva. 2017. "Reducing Poverty and Inequality through Tax-benefit Reform and the Minimum Wage: the UK as a Case-study", The Journal of Economic Inequality 15(4): 303-323

• Tasseva, Iva. 2016. “Evaluating the Performance of Means-tested Benefits in Bulgaria”, Journal of Comparative Economics 44(4): 919-935

Book chapters:

• Hills, John, Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Tasseva. 2019. "Policy and Poverty in Seven EU-countries in the Lisbon Decade: The Contribution of Tax-Benefit Policy Changes", In Decent Incomes for all. Improving Policies in Europe, B. Cantillon, T. Goedemé , and J. Hills (editors), Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press

• Nolan, Brian, Chrysa Leventi, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Tasseva. 2018. "Strengthening Redistribution", In Generating Prosperity for Working Families in Affluent Countries, B. Nolan (editor), Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 259-281

Other:

• Tosheva, Ekaterina, Iva Tasseva, Dragomir Draganov, and Venelin Boshnakov. 2016. "Effects of Changes in the Tax-Transfer System on the Households Income Distribution in Bulgaria: Simulation Analysis using EUROMOD for 2011-2015", Economic Thought 5: 51-71 (in Bulgarian)/ 72-91 (in English)

• Boshnakov, Venelin, Ekaterina Tosheva, and Iva Tasseva. 2014. "A Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model for Bulgaria: Opportunities for Cross-Country Socio-Economic Analysis using EUROMOD", Statistika 3: 9-36