Working papers

In this paper we use an economic model to analyse data from a major social experiment, namely PROGRESA in Mexico, and to evaluate its impact on school participation.

We evaluate the German apprenticeship system, which combines on-the-job training with classroom teaching, by modelling individual careers from the choice to join such a scheme and followed by their employment, job to job transitions and wages over the lifecycle.

Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions.

A well known problem with revealed preference methods is that when data are found to satisfy their restrictions it is hard to know whether this should be viewed as a triumph for economic theory, or a warning that these conditions are so undemanding that almost anything goes. This paper allows researchers to make this distinction.

The paper characterises identified sets of structural functions when endogenous variables are discrete.

This study evaluates a university access program that provides financial, academic and social support to low socioeconomic status (SES) students using a natural experiment which exploits the time variation in the expansion of the program across schools.

This paper provides a life-cycle framework for weighing up the insurance value of disability benefits against the incentive cost.

This paper reviews some of the econometric methods that have been used in the economics of education.

We examine the setting of minimum wages, arguing that they can best be understood as a reflection of voters' notions of fairness.