Rebekah Stroud has been a research economist in the industrial organisation and demand team at the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 2017. Most of her research looks at how policy can be used to discourage socially harmful behaviour, with particular application to food and drink consumption and motoring vehicles. She is also one of the researchers involved in the NIHR obesity policy research which draws together researchers from a number of different disciplines with the aim of informing the design of better policy to tackle the obesity crisis.
