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6402: On initial-condition sensitivity and prediction in nonlinear stochastic systems

Qiwei Yao and Howell Tong

6397: Expanding the domain of policy-relevant scholarship in the social sciences

William Julius Wilson

6395: Measuring well-being and exclusion in Europe's regions

Kitty Stewart

6393: Sheer class? The extent and sources of variation in the UK graduate earnings premium

Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith and Abigail McKnight

6389: Informal employment in countries in transition: a conceptual framework

Sabine Bernabe

6387: Smart growth: the future of the American metropolis?

Bruce Katz

6384: Tasting Freedom: happiness, religion and economic transition

Orsolya Lelkes

6380: Cross-validatory bandwidth selection for regression estimation based on dependent data

Howell Tong and Qiwei Yao

6379: The economic determinants of truancy

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner and Carol Propper

6373: Comparing incomes when needs differ: equivalisation for the extra costs of disability in the UK

Asghar Zaidi and Tania Burchardt

6371: Cohabitation and divorce across nations and generations

Kathleen Kiernan

6365: Continuity and change in pathways to young adult disadvantage: results from a British birth cohort

John Hobcraft

6363: Reviewing the terms of inclusion: transactional processes, currencies and context

Sally Witcher

6361: Why labour hoarding may be rational: a model of firm behaviour during transition

Ceema Zahra Namazie

6359: Is targeting deprived areas an effective means to reach poor people? An assessment of one rationale for area-based funding programmes

Rebecca Tunstall and Ruth Lupton

6334: Identifying vulnerable groups in the Kyrgyz labour market: some implications for the national poverty reduction strategy

Sabine Bernabe and Alexandre Kolev

6329: The effect of unobservables on labour supply decisions: the formal and informal sector during transition

Ceema Zahra Namazie

6327: 'Neighbourhood effects': can we measure them and does it matter?

Ruth Lupton

6325: Common structure in panels of short time series

Qiwei Yao, Howell Tong, Bärbel Finkenstädt and Nils Chr Stenseth

6324: Nonparametric estimation of ratios of noise to signal in stochastic regression

Howell Tong and Qiwei Yao

6323: Disability and disadvantage: selection, onset and duration effects

Stephen Jenkins and John A. Rigg

6321: Schools in disadvantaged areas: recognising context and raising quality

Ruth Lupton

6319: Neighbourhood management and the future of urban areas

Anne Power

6316: Intergenerational and life-course transmission of social exclusion in the 1970 British cohort study

Wendy Sigle-Rushton

6314: Functional-coefficient regression models for nonlinear time series

Zongwu Cai, Jianqing Fan and Qiwei Yao

6313: Ethnic segregation in England's schools

Simon Burgess and Deborah Wilson

6312: The economic basis of social class

John H. Goldthorpe and Abigail McKnight

6311: Conditional minimum volume predictive regions for stochastic processes

Wolfgang Polonik and Qiwei Yao

6310: Income dynamics and the life cycle

John A. Rigg and Tom Sefton

6309: Urban social exclusion in transitional China

Bingqin Li

6308: Developing family development accounts in Taipei: policy innovation from income to assets

Li-Chen Cheng

6306: Employment, family union, and childbearing decisions in Great Britain

Arnstein Aassve, Simon Burgess, Carol Propper and Matt Dickson

6305: The impact of low income on child health: evidence from a birth cohort study

Simon Burgess, Carol Propper and John A. Rigg

6304: One man's rags are another man's riches: identifying adaptive preferences using panel data

Tania Burchardt

6303: Poverty and inequality and social policy in China

Bingqin Li and David Piachaud

6302: Social mobility, life chances, and the early years

Jane Waldfogel

6300: Income mobility in old age in Britain and Germany

Asghar Zaidi, Joachim Frick and Felix Buchel

6274: Teenage expectations and desires about family formation in the United States

Robert D. Plotnick

6273: The contributions of Professor Amartya Sen in the field of human rights

Polly Vizard

6272: Helter skelter: families, disabled children and the benefit system

Gabrielle Preston

6271: Public and private welfare activity in the United Kingdom, 1979 to 1999

Rachel Smithies

6270: Knowing what is good for you: empirical analysis of personal preferences and the 'objective good'

Orsolya Lelkes

6269: An exploration of childhood antecedents of female adult malaise in two British birth cohorts: combining Bayesian model averaging and recursive partitioning

John Hobcraft and Wendy Sigle-Rushton

6267: Perceptions of redistribution: report on exploratory qualitative research

Alan Hedges

6265: Jobcentre Plus or minus? Exploring the performance of Jobcentre Plus for non-jobseekers

Eleni Karagiannaki

6262: Parental investment in childhood and later adult well-being: can more involved parents offset the effects of socioeconomic disadvantage?

Darcy Hango

6259: Expenditure patterns post-welfare reform in the UK: are low-income families starting to catch up?

Paul Gregg, Jane Waldfogel and Elizabeth Washbrook

6257: Non-residential fatherhood and child involvement: evidence from the millennium cohort study

Kathleen Kiernan

6255: Parallel lives? Ethnic segregation in schools and neighbourhoods

Simon Burgess, Deborah Wilson and Ruth Lupton

6252: Health supplier quality and the distribution of child health

Carol Propper, John A. Rigg and Simon Burgess

6250: Labour market disadvantage amongst disabled people: a longitudinal perspective

John A. Rigg

6246: Changes in the living arrangements of elderly people in Greece: 1974-1999

Eleni Karagiannaki

6245: The dynamics of school attainment of England's ethnic minorities

Deborah Wilson, Simon Burgess and Adam Briggs

6243: Modelling poverty by not modelling poverty: an application of a simultaneous hazards approach to the UK

Arnstein Aassve, Simon Burgess, Matt Dickson and Carol Propper

6240: Exploring the effects of integrated benefit systems and active labour market policies: evidence from Jobcentre Plus in the UK

Eleni Karagiannaki

6239: Assessing the impact of illness, caring and ethnicity on social activity

Lucinda Platt

6238: Understanding socio-economic inequalities in childhood respiratory health

Carol Propper and John A. Rigg

6236: Foundations for measuring equality: a discussion paper for the equalities review

Tania Burchardt

6229: Transition from work to retirement in EU25

Asghar Zaidi, Mattia Makovec and Michael Fuchs

6226: The social protection of rural workers in the construction industry in urban China

Bingqin Li and Huamin Peng

6225: Pension policy in EU25 and its possible impact on elderly poverty

Asghar Zaidi, Aaron Grech and Michael Fuchs

6223: Using the British Household Panel Survey to explore changes in housing tenure in England

Tom Sefton

6222: Understanding low achievement in English schools

Geeta Kingdon and Robert Cassen

6220: Child support awards in Britain: an analysis of data from the families and children study

Stephen Morris

6218: Definition of equality and framework for measurement: final recommendations of the equalities review steering group on measurement

Tania Burchardt and Polly Vizard

6217: Developing a capability list: final recommendations of the equalities review steering group on measurement

Polly Vizard and Tania Burchardt

6215: Employment trajectories for mothers in low-skilled work: evidence from the British lone parent cohort

Kitty Stewart

6214: Family income and tertiary education attendance across the EU: an empirical assessment using sibling data

Vincent Vandenberghe

6211: Refinancing Europe’s higher education through deferred and income-contingent fees: an empirical assessment using Belgian, German and UK data

Vincent Vandenberghe and O. Debande

6210: Socio-economic status and child behaviour: evidence from a contemporary UK cohort

Carol Propper and John A. Rigg

6208: Welfare reforms and child well-being in the US and UK

Jane Waldfogel

6206: Freedom to be a child: commercial pressures on children

David Piachaud

6205: Are current levels of air pollution in England too high?: the impact of pollution on population mortality

John Henderson, Katharina Janke and Carol Propper

6196: Understanding the relationship between parental income and multiple child outcomes: a decomposition analysis

Paul Gregg, Carol Propper and Elizabeth Washbrook

6194: Driven to swim with the tide?: urban redevelopment and community participation in China

Hyun Bang Shin

6192: Welfare reform in the United States: implications for British social policy

James Midgley, Kitty Stewart, David Piachaud and Howard Glennerster

6129: The impact of length of the school year on student performance and earnings: evidence from the German short school years

Jorn-Steffen Pischke

6103: Bootstrap estimation of actual significance levels for tests based on estimated nuisance parameters

Qiwei Yao, Wengyan Yang and Howell Tong

6095: Smoothing for discrete-valued time series

Zongwu Cai, Qiwei Yao and Wenyang Zhang

6092: Nonparametric estimation and symmetry tests for conditional density functions

Qiwei Yao and Rob Hyndman

6086: Prediction and nonparametric estimation for time series with heavy tails

Peter Hall, Liang Peng and Qiwei Yao

6084: Moving-maximum models for extrema of time series

Peter Hall, Liang Peng and Qiwei Yao

5922: Credit rationing, wealth inequality and allocation of talent

Maitreesh Ghatak, Massimo Morelli and Tomas Sjostrom

5913: Status incentives

Timothy Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak

5888: Date tilting for time series

Peter Hall and Qiwei Yao

5885: Adaptive varying co-efficient linear models

Jianqing Fan, Qiwei Yao and Zongwu Cai

5878: Set-indexed conditional empirical and quantile processes based on dependent data

Qiwei Yao and Wolfgang Polonik

5875: Inference in ARCH and GARCH models with heavy-tailed errors

Peter Hall and Qiwei Yao

5832: Smoothing for spatiotemporal models and its application to modeling Muskrat-Mink interaction

Wenyang Zhang, Qiwei Yao, Howell Tong and Nils Chr Stenseth

5828: Least absolute deviations estimation for ARCH and GARCH models

Liang Peng and Qiwei Yao

5824: Republican freedom and the rule of law

Christian List

5812: Strategy-proof judgment aggregation

Franz Dietrich and Christian List

5687: EMU strategies: lessons from Greece in view of EU enlargement

Theodoros Papaspyrou

5679: Market reforms and urban disparity: the cases of Athens & Thessaloniki

Antonis Kamaras

5633: Subsidising Europe’s industry: is Greece the exception?

Nikolaos Zahariadis

5631: Economic policy in EMU: community framework and national strategies - focus on Greece

Theodoros Papaspyrou

5618: Growing Together? Prospects for economic convergence and reunification in Cyprus

Max Watson

5608: "Varieties of capitalism" and the Greek case: explaining the constraints on domestic reform?

Kevin Featherstone

5607: Fiscal adjustment in Southern Europe: the limits of EMU conditionality

Spyros Blavoukos and George Pagoulatos

5572: Housing finance aspects of the green paper

John Hills and Alex Marsh