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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
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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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Measuring wellbeing growth and convergence in multivariate ordered categorical worlds: Has there been any levelling up in the United Kingdom?

Working Paper

Whilst there is strong evidence of growth, the results indicate that there is little evidence of "levelling up" type growth in the United Kingdom.

21 December 2023

Adverse selection among early adopters and unraveling innovation

Working Paper

I provide an equilibrium analysis of 'selection markets,' where consumers vary in both their willingness to pay and the cost to the seller.

18 December 2023

Walk the talk: Measuring green preferences with social media data

Working Paper

We created a unique data set based on social media data by collecting all the tweets of 54,000 Swedish citizens between January and June 2019.

6 November 2023

Inference for rank-rank regressions

Working Paper

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

2 November 2023

Powerful t-tests in the presence of nonclassical measurement error

Working Paper

This paper proposes an alternative to the t-test hypothesis that a coefficient in linear regression is equal to zero when a regressor is mismeasured.

2 November 2023

Dementia incidence trend in England and Wales, 2002–19, and projection for dementia burden to 2040: analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Journal article

We examined dementia trends in England and Wales from 2002 to 2019, addressing bias and non-linearity, with limited post-2010 data.

30 October 2023

Inflation measurement with high frequency data

Working Paper

We use 8 years of data on 178 consumer product categories to compare bilateral and multilateral index number methods for computing monthly inflation.

18 October 2023

Identification analysis in models with unrestricted latent variables: Fixed effects and initial conditions

Working Paper

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

11 October 2023

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

Working Paper

We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between agents.

11 October 2023

Estimating intra-household sharing from time-use data

Working Paper

This report shows that it is possible to use time-use data to estimate resource sharing in households via linear regression.

8 September 2023

Robust estimation and inference in panels with interactive fixed effects

Working Paper

We consider estimation and inference for a regression coefficient in panels with interactive fixed effects (i.e., with a factor structure).

7 July 2023

Heterogeneity of consumption responses to income shocks in the presence of nonlinear persistence

Journal article

In this paper we use the enhanced consumption data in the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics to explore the transmission of income shocks to consumption.

15 June 2023