Working papers

This paper concerns the decomposition of income risk into permanent and transitory components using repeated cross-section data on income and consumption.

This paper looks at a series of reforms to the Polish tax on labour.

We study optimal taxation in the general extensive model.

In a second best environment, the optimal policy choice sometimes follows the first best rules.

The paper looks at the effects on fertility of major reforms of child-contingent benefits made in 1999.

In this paper we use new data to describe how firms from 15 European countries organise their innovative activities.

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the head from the household, mainly due to death or divorce, affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia.

We specify a structural life-cycle model of consumption, labour supply and job mobility in an economy with search frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects.

This project analyses the findings from a series of "public goods" games that were conducted in the spring and winter of 2006 in 103 municipalities in rural and urban Colombia.

In this paper we investigate the size of the consumption drop at retirement in Italy.