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Gender norms, violence and adolescent girls’ trajectories: Evidence from India

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Changing the attitudes and behaviours of those enforcing restrictive societal norms is critical for meaningful improvements in women’s wellbeing.

24 October 2022

Drastic times need drastic action: breaking the 50-year tax taboo

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Rachel Reeves should consider increasing the basic rate, just as Denis Healey did in 1975 

14 April 2025

Average household consumption spending before and after housing costs, and mean weekly per-capita income, in different local authorities, 2018–2019

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Londoners may have the highest average incomes, but their household spending once you account for housing costs is lower than other regions.

11 April 2025

Policy analysis

Which places have the highest standard of living?

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Measuring living standards using average household spending gives a starkly different picture of regional inequalities than using average income.

11 April 2025

ABC of SV: Limited Information Likelihood Inference in Stochastic Volatility Jump-Diffusion Models

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We develop novel methods for estimation and filtering of continuous-time models with stochastic volatility and jumps using so-called Approximate Bayesian Compu- tation which build likelihoods based on limited information.

12 August 2014

Assessing the economic benefits of education: reconciling microeconomic and macroeconomic approaches

report

This CAYT report discusses the strengths and limitations of several approaches to assessing the effect of education on productivity.

14 March 2013

Academic research

Prediction sets and conformal inference with censored outcomes

working paper

This paper provides estimation methods of such prediction sets given observed conditioning covariates when 𝑌 is censored or measured in intervals. 

21 January 2025

Small area consumption estimates for local authorities in Great Britain

working paper

In this paper, we estimate average equivalised consumption measures across local authority districts in Great Britain.

11 April 2025

The impact of labour demand shocks when occupational labour supplies are heterogeneous

working paper

We develop a tractable equilibrium model of the labour market with heterogeneous labour supply elasticities by occupation and across occupation pairs.

8 April 2025