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Can white elephants kill? Unintended consequences of infrastructure development

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I provide evidence of the severe social costs imposed by infrastructure projects that are being implemented in the context of sewerage in Peru.

12 July 2022

Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK

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We examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time in the UK.

6 July 2022

In-kind transfers as insurance

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Using calorie shortfalls as a marginal utility proxy, we find that in-kind transfers are preferred for low-income Indian households.

29 June 2022

Intergenerational income persistence: evidence for the UK

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We spotlight some newer directions in intergenerational mobility research within economics driven by changes in some key trends in the recent decades

29 June 2022

Intergenerational income mobility in England and the importance of education

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We use newly linked UK administrative to estimate absolute income mobility for children born in England in the 1980s.

17 June 2022

More powerful cluster randomized control trials

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This paper describes methods to optimally choose the number of treatment and control clusters and the number of units within.

16 June 2022

Prioritization, risk selection, and illness severity in a mixed health care system

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We study the link between illness severity and the use of public health care services by the privately insured under a public health system.

16 June 2022

Take-up and labour supply responses to disability insurance earnings limits

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We develop a simple framework to evaluate the trade-offs with disability insurance programs.

15 June 2022

The impacts of preferential college admissions for the disadvantaged: experimental evidence from the PACE programme in Chile

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We study the impacts that preferential admissions can have on the higher-education admission, enrolment and retention of disadvantaged students.

9 June 2022

Social proximity and misinformation: experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India

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We study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health behaviour campaigns.

8 June 2022

Earnings risk, government policy, and household welfare

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The project documents that the dynamics of male and female labour earnings in the UK is substantially richer than typically assumed.

20 May 2022

Policy choice in time series by empirical welfare maximization

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This paper develops a novel method for policy choice in a dynamic setting where the available data is a multi-variate time-series.

19 May 2022

Public service delivery and free riding: experimental evidence from India

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This paper provides novel evidence on the trade-off between public service delivery and free riding in low- and middle-income countries.

14 April 2022

House price rises and borrowing to invest

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We propose an alternative borrow-to-invest motive by which house price gains affect household spending on residential investment.

6 April 2022

Narrative restrictions and proxies

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We compare two approaches to using information about the signs of structural shocks at speciﬁc dates within a structural vector autoregression (SVAR): imposing ‘narrative restrictions’ (NR) on the shock signs in an otherwise set-identiﬁed SVAR; and casting the information about the shock signs as a discrete-valued ‘narrative proxy’ (NP) to point-identify the impulse responses.

6 April 2022