1 June 2004
An exploration of the New Deal for Young People programme.
1 June 2004
This chapter is part of a pamplet looking at the seven ages of man (and woman) in the modern era.
1 June 2004
In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.
1 June 2004
We examine the impact of high school graduation on the probability individuals from welfare
1 June 2004
This paper provides a discussion of stamp duty and its effects.
1 June 2004
I show that a class of fixed effects estimators is reasonably robust for estimating the population-averaged slope coefficients in panel data models with individual-specific slopes, where the slopes are allowed to be correlated with the covariates.
1 June 2004
This report sets out what has happened to income and expenditure inequality in the 1990s and early 2000s, comparing the changes to previous decades. Although income is very often used for assessing living standards in this country, spending is often more informative, because many people can choose to borrow, save or run down their savings at any given time, in order to adjust their standard of living.
1 June 2004
This Briefing Note looks at the potential for the introduction of a 'fat tax' into the UK in an effort to reduce the growing prevalence of obesity in Britain. This Briefing Note looks at trends in UK obesity and examines evidence on eating habits and exercise in order to see whether trends here can account for what we see happening to obesity. We go on to review some of the key economic reasons behind why we might be concerned about obesity and why we might consider there to be a case for government intervention. We also discuss how food is currently taxed and the various ways in which a 'fat tax' might be introduced, looking at particular issues the government might need to address should it wish to introduce one. We finish by presenting some simple analysis of a hypothetical 'fat tax' in terms of how it might impact differently on the rich and the poor.
1 June 2004
This paper extends the nonparametric methods developed by Samuelson (1948), Houthakker (1950), Afriat (1973), Diewert (1973) and Varian (1982, 1983) to latently separable models.
1 June 2004
21 May 2004
In this paper we evaluate the impact of a major school reform, that took place in the 1950s in Sweden, on educational attainment and earnings.
2 May 2004
In this paper we study the determinants of child anthropometrics on a sample of poor Colombianchildren living in small municipalities.
1 May 2004
Stata module to perform 'fully interacted linear matching', that is a fully interacted linear regression model in which the treatment dummy is interacted with each one of the other regressors.
1 May 2004
This article was published in Public Service Director on 1st May 2005.
1 May 2004
We study the effects of risk and uncertainty on education and childlabour in developing countries.
30 April 2004
22 April 2004
This article was published in New Start on 19th April 2004.
19 April 2004
Estimation of heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent covariance matrices (HACs) is a well established problem in time series.
9 April 2004