Working papers

This paper develops a new method for estimating a demand function and the welfare consequences of price changes.

We study the UK Winter Fuel Payment (WFP) and find robust evidence of a behavioural effect of the labelling.

We find evidence that the poorest of older households are unable to smooth spending over the worst temperature shocks.

The authors present evidence from 260,000 online auctions of second-hand cars to identify the impact of public reserve prices on auction outcomes.

This paper develops a new technique for the estimation of consumer demand models with unobserved heterogeneity subject to revealed preference inequality restrictions.

This document describes the UK tax and benefit system between April 1990 and April 2010, as implemented in FORTAX.

We show that lottery players display higher income effects than non-players but only amongst those likely to be credit constrained.

We find that higher minimum wages are associated with significantly lower hiring and layoff rates.

University tuition fees for undergraduates were abolished in Ireland in 1996. This paper examines the effect of this reform on the socio-economic gradient.

This paper shows that there are large differences in cognitive and socio-emotional development between children from rich and poor backgrounds.