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Tim Beatty

Tim Beatty

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Academic outputs

IFS Working Paper W18/04
Lost in translation: What do Engel curves tell us about the cost of living?
The Hamilton method for estimating CPI bias is simple, intuitive, and has been widely adopted. We show that the method conflates CPI bias with variation in cost-of-living across income levels.
Journal article
Cash by any other name? Evidence on labeling from the UK Winter Fuel Payment
This paper received the 2017 Atkinson Award. The award is named Tony Atkinson, who was the founding editor of JPubE in 1972 and served as editor for 26 years, and is given every other year to the best paper published in the Journal of Public Economics.

Reports and comment

Presentations

Presentation
Cash by any other name? evidence on labelling from the UK Winter Fuel Payment
This presentation was delivered at the Geary Institute, University College Dublin.
Presentation
'Cash by any other name? evidence on labelling from the UK Winter Fuel Payment' and 'Is there a heat or eat trade-off in the UK?'
This presentation was delivered at the IFS briefing 'Cash by any other name? evidence on labelling from the UK Winter Fuel Payment', 8 June 2011.