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How to reduce child poverty: compare the policy options
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Use these charts to compare policies for reducing child poverty and to examine how child poverty rates have changed over time across different groups.
3 October 2024
How can government reduce child poverty?
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We're exploring why there's been an increase in child poverty since 2010 and options the government has to reduce this.
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Automatic enrolment has been successful in getting more people into workplace pensions, but are they saving enough?
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This online event looked at the case for reforming capital gains tax and what the government could do in the upcoming budget.
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We continue to make advances in developing models and methods to study the dynamic behaviour of individuals and firms, the structure of the education, labour and marriage markets, and their implications for policy design and evaluation.

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Identifying network ties from panel data: Theory and an application to tax competition

Journal article The Review of Economic Studies

Our identification and application show that the analysis of social interactions can be extended to economic realms where no network data exists.

9 September 2024

The gender gap in household bargaining power: a revealed-preference approach

Journal article The Review of Financial Studies

We propose an intrahousehold model that aggregates individual preferences at the household level as a result of bargaining.

22 August 2024

Focal pricing and pass-through

Working Paper

I show that the adoption and extent of focal pricing practices in an industry in general do not lower average pass-through of input cost changes.

21 August 2024

Estimating intra-household sharing from time-use data

Working Paper

Estimating intra-household sharing is crucial to understanding overall inequality. However, expenditure data is almost always at the household level.

19 July 2024

Production function estimation using subjective expectations data

Working Paper

Implementing a range of production function estimators on UK data, we find our results are similar to or more credible than widely-used alternatives.

11 July 2024

Canadian inequality over the last 40 years: common and contrary variations on universal themes

Journal article

In this paper, we describe the trends in inequality in Canada and the combination of market and policy forces that drove them.

9 July 2024

Changing patterns of inequality in Norway: the roles of gender, education, immigration and unions

Journal article

We assess the evolution of inequality over time in Norway and the underlying factors which determine such changes.

9 July 2024

Examining inequalities: from labour markets to social outcomes in Finland

Journal article

We discuss the drivers of inequality in Finland, such as wages, earnings, employment and education and also social outcomes such as partner-finding.

9 July 2024

Family and career: an analysis across Europe and North America

Journal article

Across 17 countries in Europe and North America, we compare the career trajectories of families and individuals across cohorts.

9 July 2024

Intrahousehold welfare: Theory and application to Japanese data

Working Paper

We construct a money metric measure of welfare that accounts for public goods (by using personalized prices) and the allocation of time.

9 July 2024

Labour market matching, wages, and amenities

Working Paper

We develop a constructive proof for the nonparametric identification of the model primitives from matched employer-employee data.

9 July 2024

Inference for rank-rank regressions

Working Paper

Slope coefficients in rank-rank regressions are popular measures of intergenerational mobility.

28 May 2024

Household responses to trade shocks

Working Paper

We study the responses of both individuals and their partners to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s.

26 March 2024

Sample composition and representativeness on Understanding Society

Journal article

In this paper, we provide an overview of the sample design of Understanding Society and the consequent nature of design weights.

2 February 2024

Understanding Society: health, biomarker and genetic data

Journal article

Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study includes a wide range of health measures, and in particular biomarker and genetic data.

2 February 2024

Understanding Society: minimising selection biases in data collection using mobile apps

Journal article

We review the potential barriers to data collection using mobile apps and experimental evidence collected with the UK Household Longitudinal Study.

2 February 2024

Understanding Society: the income data

Journal article

We introduce the income data of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study.

2 February 2024

A symposium on Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Survey: introduction

Journal article

The UK Household Longitudinal Study began in 2009, and built on and incorporated its predecessor the British Household Panel Survey.

17 January 2024

Robust analysis of short panels

Working Paper

Examples of application to some static and dynamic binary, ordered and multiple discrete choice panel data models are presented.

8 January 2024

A coefficient of variation for ordered categorical data: Analyzing relative health inequality and ageing in the UK and relative human resource inequality and gender in Canada

Working Paper

The rise of ordinal data in empirical sciences calls for location and variation measurement instruments suitable for such data environments.

21 December 2023

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