Working papers

This paper presents the findings from two experiments designed to test the hypothesis that individuals' notions of distributive justice are associated with their economic status relative to others within their own society.

This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK.

We show that, in locations with frequent inspections workers pay for mandated benefits by receiving lower wages.

In this paper, we estimate the separate impacts of tuition fees and maintenance grants on the decision to enter university in the UK.

In this paper we provide evidence that the growth in Chinese patenting activity has been accompanied by a growth in Chinese inventors creating technologies that are near to the science base.

I develop and estimate a model of the labor market in which precautionary savings interacts with labour market frictions to produce substantial inequality in wealth among ex ante identical workers.

Co authored with Manuela Angelucci (Arizona) and Giacomo de Giorgi (Stanford)

This paper uses administrative data to evaluate a targeted, time-limited policy aimed at getting lone parents off benefits and into work.

This paper examines changes in health and disability related transfers in the UK over the last thirty years, and describes how they are related to changes in labour force participation.

This study looks at the impact on criminal behaviour of a reform to the number of years' compulsory schooling in Sweden.