Working papers

This paper extends behavioural microsimulation modelling so that third round effectsof a policy change can be simulated.

This paper considers the nonparametric and semiparametric methods for estimating regression models with continuous endogenous regressors.

We investigate the performance of a class of semiparametric estimators of the treatment effect via asymptotic expansions.

We consider to what extent the empirical failings of the Q model of investment can be attributed to the use of share prices to measure average q.

Using three major UK pension reforms as natural experiments we investigate the relationship between pension saving and discretionary private savings.

An exogenous impact function is defined as the derivative of a structural function with respect to an endogenous variable, other variables, including unobservable variables held fixed.

This paper is an evaluation of the British labor market program the "New Deal for the Young Unemployed" using administrative panel data on individuals between 1982 and 1999.

Over the last two decades, the wage gap between men and women has narrowed, yet a sizeable discrepancy in earnings capacity remains between seemingly identical male and female workers.

The impact of covariate measurement error on quantile regression functions is investigated using a small variance approximation

This paper develops and implements semiparametric methods for estimating binary response (binary choice) models withcontinuous endogenous

In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/89 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socio-economic status and health outcomes.

This paper was prepared for inclusion in a symposium on saving and consumption in the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

Childcare subsidies are typically advocated as a means to making paid employment profitable for mothers, but also have important ramifications for the use and quality of paid childcare. Even if one is concerned primarily with the quantity aspect, the quality dimension cannot be ignored. This paper provides an exposition of the potential biases in estimates of price elasticities with respect to quantity that do not allow for quality variation or for the possibility of non-linear pricing structures.

Policy makers in Europe have been concerned that lack of product market competition have led productivity to lag behind the US.

This paper describes the characteristics of manufacturing establishments in Britain over the period 1980 to 1996. Particular attention is paid to differences between plants of different ownership nationality.

In this paper I evaluate the New Deal in a historical and international context.