18 February 2005
We develop and test a model on the effects of spatial housing price risk on housing choice.
17 February 2005
This lecture, for the IFS Public Economics Lectures series, focuses on government intervention in the funding of higher education and outlines the implications of these provisions for students, graduates, universities and the tax payer.
17 February 2005
This paper addresses the intergeneration transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age.
11 February 2005
This lecture, for the IFS Public Economics Lectures series, focuses on why there is a productivity gap between the UK and some other countries, notably the US, why we want to reward R & D and ways to do this through the tax system.
10 February 2005
Cobb Douglas production function parameters are not identified from cross-section variation when inputs are perfectly flexible and chosen optimally, and input prices are common to all firms.
9 February 2005
The adequacy of household saving for retirement has become a policy issue all around the world.
4 February 2005
Policy makers in the UK and the EU have been concerned that not enough resources are being devoted to innovative activities.
1 February 2005
This paper is concerned with the practical problem of conducting inference in a vector time series setting when the data is unbalanced or incomplete.
1 February 2005
Russia dramatically reduced its higher rates of personal income tax (PIT) in 2001 establishing a single marginal rate at the low level of 13 percent.
31 January 2005
This article was published in The Independent on 30th January 2005.
30 January 2005
We estimate the effect of pension reforms on households expectations of retirement outcomes and private wealth accumulation decisions exploiting a decade of Italian pension reforms as a source of exogenous variation in expected pension wealth.
30 January 2005
This lecture focuses on Familias en Accion, a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia, evaluating its effects and results in relation to education, health and nutrition.
27 January 2005
The IFS Green Budget 2005 examines the options open to the Chancellor in his forthcoming Budget.
27 January 2005
Job losers exhibit significant heterogeneity in wealth holdings and in the marginal propensity to consume transitory income.
27 January 2005
We show that as household size increases, households substitute away from prepared foods and towards ingredients.
27 January 2005
26 January 2005