Poverty, inequality and social mobility

We use death certificate and population data in Latin American countries to calculate mortality by rates by age, sex and educational attainment

We propose a novel measure of intergenerational welfare mobility, “value-value” slope, including both pecuniary and non-pecuniary value of a job. 

Using Danish administrative data, we study how postpartum mental health shocks shape women’s labor market trajectories.

We study the impact of the UK house price boom on the intergenerational persistence of homeownership, housing wealth, location and earnings.

We propose a new approach to estimate selection-corrected quantiles of the gender wage gap. 

Using the 1937 introduction of antibiotics, we study how childhood pneumonia affects adult education, employment, income, and work disability.

We show that a menopause diagnosis leads to lasting drops in earnings and employment, alongside greater reliance on social transfers.

A summary of Left Behind, by its author Paul Collier

This paper uses administrative data linking school and tax records to study migration in people's early careers.

This issue brings together three papers that examine how, and why, the places where people grow up, live and work shape their opportunities in England

This paper investigates how the link between opportunity and childhood varies in England.

We study whether in practice the Scottish Child Payment (SCP) creates disincentives to work.

We study how the timing of economic support measures during the COVID-19 pandemic affected household financial distress across Europeans aged over 50

We provide new empirical facts on the formation of subjective expectation regarding rarely studied local house price changes. 

How should governments respond to rapid increases in the cost of living driven by shocks to the prices of staple goods?

We study how exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) affects young children’s accumulation of cognitive and socio-emotional skills.