Reports

We investigate evidence for spatially mediated knowledge transfer from university research.

This technical report focuses specifically on the ELSA's methodology and conduct of the second wave

This note looks at a couple of key indicators of the health of the public finances in historical and international perspective to assess whether the public finances are stronger or weaker now than they were at the outset of the last recession in 1990 and when Labour came to power in 1997.

The French pension system is complex, fragmented and hardly understood by most French citizens while its long term financial sustainability is uncertain.In this book Antoine Bozio and Thomas Piketty suggest an ambitious reform of the French pension system towards a unified scheme based on notional accounts.

This Commentary looks at the inflation experience (based on the RPI) for different groups of households, focusing in particular on pensioner households.

This paper reviews a range of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics.

This paper investigates the puzzling evidence on wages and educational attainment observed in Brazil in the 1990s.

As part of a report produced by Barnardo's, we modelled three reforms to the tax credit system.

This report provides an in-depth description of the first wave of household data collected for a randomised field experiment to measure the impact of microcredit on poverty reduction among poor rural women in Mongolia.

This report makes use of newly linked administrative data to better understand the determinants of participation in HE - and participation in high status universities - amongst those facing socio-economic disadvantage, those from poorly educated families and ethnic minorities.

In this Commentary, we assess the changes to average incomes, inequality and poverty that have occurred under the first 10 years of the Labour government.

This report examines how overall levels of public spending on education and schools in the UK have evolved in recent years, how the English school funding system allocates money to individual schools and the extent to which the school funding system is redistributive.

This paper models how migration both influences and responds to differences in disease prevalence between cities, regions and countries, and show how the possibility of migration away from high-prevalence areas affects long-run steady state disease prevalence.

This notes looks at the impact on families of recent changes to the tax system, including the abolition of the 10% tax rate.

This note assesses the impact of recent tax and benefit changes on the public finances and the economy.

We investigate the effect of studying abroad on international labor market mobility later in life for university graduates.

This paper evaluates AGEs (Apoyo a la Gestion Escolar or School Management Support) and examines whether the increased parental participation that they brought about helped to create a more conducive learning environment and improve students' learning outcomes.