This paper is concerned with inference about a function g that is identified by a conditional moment restriction involving instrumental variables.
14 December 2004
10 December 2004
This article was published in Public Finance Magazine on 10th December 2004.
10 December 2004
We consider empirical evidence from the US and the UK regarding the extent to which funds in some specific tax advantaged accounts (IRAs in the US, TESSAs and ISAs in the UK) represent new savings.
10 December 2004
How much does US-based R&D benefit other countries and through what mechanisms?
8 December 2004
This paper investigates the determinants of vertical integration using data from the UK manufacturing sector.
3 December 2004
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2 December 2004
We analyse a puzzle in the UK corporation tax: by both historic and international standards, corporation tax revenues have been high while the statutory rate has been reduced.
1 December 2004
This paper examines the application of price-cap regulation to the UK airport industry, with particular reference to the expansion of London-Stansted.
1 December 2004
Between 1992 and 1995, the Italian pension system was deeply reformed, and it is now moving from an earnings-related to a contribution-based scheme.
1 December 2004
Scotland has much higher public expenditure per head than England, but little work has been done to compare Scottish and English needs.
1 December 2004
We study the determinants of child anthropometrics on a sample of poor Colombian children living in small municipalities.
1 December 2004
The literature on public sector discounting has brought important insights, but there remain wide differences on some fundamental issues. This paper reviews the main conflicts and the reasons underlying them.
1 December 2004
This paper describes an estimator of the additive components of a nonparametric additive model with a known link function.
1 December 2004
In this paper we investigate recent trends in childcare use amongst families in Great Britain, and provide a thorough comparison of the different household survey and administrative datasets.
1 December 2004
In this paper, we focus on two key educational choices and estimate the corresponding individual wage returns for variously defined marginal learners.
1 December 2004
In this paper, we offer an in-dept investigation of NVQ qualifications, trying to shed some light as to why a seemingly beneficial certification of skill appears to hurt labour market prospects.
1 December 2004
In this analysis we seek to shed light on the extent to which credit constraints may affect individuals choices to stay in full-time education past the age of 16 and to complete higher education (HE) qualifications in the United Kingdom, and on how this has varied between individuals born in 1958 and in 1970.
1 December 2004