Research methods

We evaluate a flagship violence-reduction intervention in London, known as Your Choice, that targets adolescents at risk of exposure to violent crime.

Using Brazilian and German administrative data, we show attenuation can exceed 50% and that conventional regression estimates can be highly imprecise.

Using German administrative data, we analyze the distributional and welfare effects of a progressive pension supplement.

We provide evidence on how the consequences of shocks to the home environment vary depending on the age at which children are exposed.

This paper examines tax non-compliance among individuals in Germany who were legally required to file a tax return but failed to do so.

We analyse UK outcomes over the period 2010–2018, where we find that there is little evidence of levelling-up type growth.

This paper examines how the quality of government spending changes at the end of the fiscal year.

A study of the Two-Way Fixed Effects (TWFE) estimator in a general setting where multiple groups can enter and exit a binary treatment over time. 

Household consumption and saving depend on perceived income risk, yet macroeconomic models typically discipline income processes using realized data.

State-dependent local projections (LPs) are widely used to study how causal effects vary as a function of economic states. 

Our review demonstrates that measuring welfare at the individual level fundamentally reshapes our understanding of inequality

We study the incidence, sources and dynamics of low-wage employment using harmonised linked employer-employee data from six European countries.

We estimate average equivalised consumption measures across 370 local authority districts in Great Britain.

Does a party benefit from taking an action which worsens the disagreement point for all parties, but relatively less for themselves?

An in-person survey in Pakistan and online surveys across multiple countries reveal widespread concern about horizontal equity.

This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence on delaying children’s smartphone ownership through a community-led policy.

In a turbulent world, effective policy requires granular estimates of firm responses to shocks as they unfold.

Using four decades of Danish administrative data, we estimate the intergenerational transmission of violent crime victimization.

Using a policy change in Australia during COVID-19, we find that self-control issues significantly predict
early withdrawals from retirement accounts.