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W10/16: Explaining the socio-economic gradient in child outcomes: the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills

Claire Crawford, Alissa Goodman and Robert Joyce

W10/15: The role of attitudes and behaviours in explaining socio-economic differences in attainment at age 16

Haroon Chowdry, Claire Crawford and Alissa Goodman

W10/14: Education choices in Mexico: using a structural model and a randomized experiment to evaluate Progresa

Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir and Ana Santiago

W10/13: Career progression and formal versus on-the-job training

Jerome Adda, Christian Dustmann, Costas Meghir and Jean-Marc Robin

W10/12: Money, mentoring and making friends: the impact of a multidimensional access program on student performance

Kevin Denny, Orla Doyle, Patricia O'Reilly and Vincent O'Sullivan

W10/11: Disability risk, disability insurance and life cycle behavior

Hamish Low and Luigi Pistaferri

W10/10: Econometric methods for research in education

Costas Meghir and Steven Rivkin

W10/09: Minimum wage setting and standards of fairness

David Green and Kathryn Harrison

W10/08: Did the extension of the franchise increase the Liberal vote in Victorian Britain? Evidence from the Second Reform Act

Samuel Berlinski and Torun Dewan

W10/07: The price elasticity of charitable giving: does the form of tax relief matter?

Kimberley Scharf and Sarah Smith

W10/06: When you are born matters: the impact of date of birth on educational outcomes in England

Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden and Costas Meghir

W10/05: Earnings, consumption and lifecycle choices

Costas Meghir and Luigi Pistaferri

W10/04: Widening participation in higher education: analysis using linked administrative data

Haroon Chowdry, Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden, Alissa Goodman and Anna Vignoles

W10/03: Occupational pension value in the public and private sectors

Rowena Crawford, Carl Emmerson and Gemma Tetlow

W10/02: Releasing jobs for the young? Early retirement and youth unemployment in the United Kingdom

James Banks, Richard Blundell, Antoine Bozio and Carl Emmerson

W10/01: Employment protection legislation, multinational firms and innovation

Rachel Griffith and Gareth Macartney

W09/23: Taxation of human capital and wage inequality: a cross-country analysis

Fatih Guvenen, Burhanettin Kuruscu and Serdar Ozkan

W09/22: Understanding the wage patterns of Canadian less skilled workers: the role of implicit contracts

David Green and James Townsend

W09/21: Ability, parental valuation of education and the high school dropout decision

Kelly Foley, Giovanni Gallipoli and David Green

W09/20: Peace and goodwill? Using an experimental game to analyse the Desarrollo y Paz initiative in Colombia

Orazio Attanasio, Luca Pellerano and David Phillips

W09/19: Migration, violence and welfare programmes in rural Colombia

Alice Mesnard

W09/18: Estimating the peace dividend: the impact of violence on house prices in Northern Ireland

Timothy Besley and Hannes Mueller

W09/17: The scourge of Asian Flu: in utero exposure to pandemic influenza and the development of a cohort of British children

Elaine Kelly

W09/16: Externality-correcting taxes and regulation

Vidar Christiansen and Stephen Smith

W09/15: Food and cash transfers: evidence from Colombia

Orazio Attanasio, Erich Battistin and Alice Mesnard

W09/14: How does entry regulation influence entry into self-employment and occupational mobility?

Susanne Prantl and Alexandra Spitz-Oener

W09/13: Market regulation and firm performance: the case of smoking bans in the UK

Jerome Adda, Samuel Berlinski, V Bhaskar and Stephen Machin

W09/12: Negative marginal tax rates and heterogeneity

Philippe Choné and Guy Laroque

W09/11: New evidence on taxes and portfolio choice

Sule Alan, Kadir Atalay, Thomas Crossley and Sung-Hee Jeon

W09/10: ICT, corporate restructuring and productivity

Laura Abramovsky and Rachel Griffith

W09/09: An analysis of consumer panel data

Andrew Leicester and Zoe Oldfield

W09/08: Why has home ownership fallen among the young?

Jonas Fisher and Martin Gervais

W09/07: The value of teachers' pensions

Richard Disney, Carl Emmerson and Gemma Tetlow

W09/06: Career progression and formal versus on-the-job training

Jerome Adda, Christian Dustmann, Costas Meghir and Jean-Marc Robin

W09/05: Preschool and maternal labour market outcomes: evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Samuel Berlinski, Sebastian Galiani and Patrick McEwan

W09/04: Ethnic parity in labour market outcomes for benefit claimants

Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden, Alice Mesnard, Jonathan Shaw and Barbara Sianesi

W09/03: Geographic proximity and firm-university innovation linkages: evidence from Great Britain

Laura Abramovsky and Helen Simpson

W09/02: The economics of a temporary VAT cut

Thomas Crossley, Hamish Low and Matthew Wakefield

W09/01: Are two cheap, noisy measures better than one expensive, accurate one?

Martin Browning and Thomas Crossley

W08/14: Non cooperative household demand

Valérie Lechene and Ian Preston

W08/13: Decomposing changes in income risk using consumption data

Richard Blundell, Hamish Low and Ian Preston

W08/12: 'Klin'-ing up: effects of Polish tax reforms on those in and on those out

Leszek Morawski and Michal Myck

W08/11: Are boys and girls affected differently when the household head leaves for good? Evidence from school and work choices in Colombia

Emla Fitzsimons and Alice Mesnard

W08/10: The location of innovative activity in Europe

Laura Abramovsky, Rachel Griffith, Gareth Macartney and Helen Miller

W08/09: Does welfare reform affect fertility? Evidence from the UK

Mike Brewer, Anita Ratcliffe and Sarah Smith

W08/08: Optimal taxation in the extensive model

Phillippe Choné and Guy Laroque

W08/07: Separability and public finance

Stephane Gauthier and Guy Laroque

W08/06: Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle

Hamish Low, Costas Meghir and Luigi Pistaferri

W08/05: The retirement consumption puzzle: evidence from a regression discontinuity approach

Erich Battistin, Agar Brugiavini, Enrico Rettore and Guglielmo Weber

W08/04: Labour supply and taxes

Costas Meghir and David Phillips