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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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Inference for rank-rank regressions

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

28 May 2024

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Household responses to trade shocks

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

26 March 2024

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Sample composition and representativeness on Understanding Society

Journal article Fiscal Studies

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

2 February 2024

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Understanding Society: health, biomarker and genetic data

Journal article Fiscal Studies

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

2 February 2024

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

Journal article Fiscal Studies

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

2 February 2024

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Understanding Society: the income data

Journal article Fiscal Studies

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

2 February 2024

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

Journal article Fiscal Studies

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

17 January 2024

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Robust analysis of short panels

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

8 January 2024

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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

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

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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

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Adverse selection among early adopters and unraveling innovation

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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

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Walk the talk: Measuring green preferences with social media data

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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

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Inference for rank-rank regressions

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

2 November 2023

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Powerful t-tests in the presence of nonclassical measurement error

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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

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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 The Lancet Public Health

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

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Inflation measurement with high frequency data

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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

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

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

11 October 2023

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

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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

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Estimating intra-household sharing from time-use data

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

8 September 2023

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Robust estimation and inference in panels with interactive fixed effects

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

7 July 2023