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W15/19: Wage regulation and the quality of police officer recruits

Rowena Crawford and Richard Disney

W15/18: Global engagement in R&D: a portrait of biopharmaceutical patenting firms

Laura Abramovsky

W15/17: Going beyond simple sample size calculations: a practitioner's guide

Brendon McConnell and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

W15/16: Demand analysis with partially observed prices

Ian Crawford and Matthew Polisson

W15/15: Sanitation dynamics: toilet acquisition and its economic and social implications

Britta Augsburg and Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes

W15/14: A tale of three distributions: inheritances, wealth and lifetime income

Rowena Crawford and Andrew Hood

W15/13: Children, time allocation and consumption insurance

Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri and Itay Saporta-Eksten

W15/12: Life-cycle consumption patterns at older ages in the US and the UK: can medical expenditures explain the difference?

James Banks, Richard Blundell, Peter Levell and James Smith

W15/11: Prices versus preferences: taste change and revealed preference

Abi Adams, Richard Blundell, Martin Browning and Ian Crawford

W15/10: The distribution of school funding and inputs in England: 1993-2013

Luke Sibieta

W15/09: Disability benefit receipt and reform: reconciling trends in the United Kingdom

James Banks, Richard Blundell and Carl Emmerson

W15/08: Value Added Tax policy and the case for uniformity: empirical evidence from Mexico

Laura Abramovsky, Orazio Attanasio and David Phillips

W15/07: Child poverty in Britain: recent trends and future prospects

Robert Joyce

W15/06: Estimating the production function for human capital: results from a randomized controlled trial in Colombia

Orazio Attanasio, Sarah Cattan, Emla Fitzsimons, Costas Meghir and Marta Rubio Codina

W15/05: The right to buy social housing in Britain: a welfare analysis

Richard Disney and Guannan Luo

W15/04: The short run elasticity of National Health Service nurses’ labour supply in Great Britain

Rowena Crawford, Richard Disney and Carl Emmerson

W15/03: Fluctuations in hours of work and employment across age and gender

Guy Laroque and Sophie Osotimehin

W15/02: Labour supply and taxation with restricted choices

Magali Beffy, Richard Blundell, Antoine Bozio, Guy Laroque and Maxime To

W15/01: Constructing full adult life-cycles from short panels

Peter Levell and Jonathan Shaw

W14/34: Empirical methods for networks data: social effects, network formation and measurement error

Arun Advani and Bansi Malde

W14/33: Challenges to promoting social inclusion of the extreme poor: evidence from a large scale experiment in Colombia

Laura Abramovsky, Orazio Attanasio, Kai Barron, Pedro Carneiro and George Stoye

W14/32: Credit Counseling: A Substitute for Consumer Financial Literacy?

Richard Disney, John Gathergood and J?rg Weber

W14/31: Socio-economic differences in university outcomes in the UK: drop-out, degree completion and degree class

Claire Crawford

W14/30: Heterogeneity in graduate earnings by socio-economic background

Claire Crawford and Anna Vignoles

W14/29: Revealed preference and consumption behaviour at retirement

Peter Levell

W14/28: The impact of family composition on educational achievment

Stacey Chen, Yen-Chien Chen and Jin-Tan Liu

W14/27: Optimal tax progressivity: an analytical framework

Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten and Giovanni L. Violante

W14/26: Household consumption when marriage is stable

Laurens Cherchye, Thomas Demuynck, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

W14/25: House prices, wealth effects and labor supply

Richard Disney and John Gathergood

W14/24: What is a minimum wage for? Empirical results and theories of justice

David Green

W14/23: Retirement sorted? The adequacy and optimality of wealth among the near-retired

Rowena Crawford and Cormac O'Dea

W14/22: Cash and Pensions: Have the elderly in England saved optimally for retirement?

Rowena Crawford and Cormac O'Dea

W14/21: The redistribution and insurance value of welfare reform

Jonathan Shaw

W14/20: From Me to You? How the UK State Pension System Redistributes

Rowena Crawford, Soumaya Keynes and Gemma Tetlow

W14/19: Labour supply effects of increasing the female state pension age in the UK from age 60 to 62

Jonathan Cribb, Carl Emmerson and Gemma Tetlow

W14/18: The impact of financial education on adolescents' intertemporal choices

Melanie Lührmann, Marta Serra-Garcia and Joachim Winter

W14/17: Never mind the hyperbolics: nonparametric analysis of time-inconsistent preferences

Laura Blow, Martin Browning and Ian Crawford

W14/16: Using a temporary indirect tax cut as a fiscal stimulus: evidence from the UK

Thomas Crossley, Hamish Low and Cath Sleeman

W14/15: The importance of product reformulation versus consumer choice in improving diet quality

Rachel Griffith, Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith

W14/14: Holy cows or cash cows?

Orazio Attanasio and Britta Augsburg

W14/13: For love or reward? Characterising preference for giving to parents in an experimental setting

Maria Porter and Abi Adams

W14/11: The socio-economic gradient of child development: cross-sectional evidence from children 6-42 months in Bogota

Marta Rubio Codina, Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir, Natalia Varela and Sally Grantham-McGregor

W14/10: Dealing with randomisation bias in a social experiment: the case of ERA

Barbara Sianesi

W14/09: Tax without design: recent developments in UK tax policy

Paul Johnson

W14/08: Consume now or later? Time inconsistency, collective choice and revealed preference

Abi Adams, Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Ewout Verriest

W14/07: The measurement of household consumption expenditures

Martin Browning, Thomas Crossley and Joachim Winter

W14/06: Can survey participation alter household saving behavior?

Thomas Crossley, Jochem de Bresser, Liam Delaney and Joachim Winter

W14/05: Household Sharing and Commitment: Evidence from Panel Data on Individual Expenditures and Time Use

Jeremy Lise and Ken Yamada

W14/04: Labour supply and taxation with restricted choices

Magali Beffy, Richard Blundell, Antoine Bozio and Guy Laroque

W14/03: Estimating the effect of teacher pay on pupil attainment using boundary discontinuities

Ellen Greaves and Luke Sibieta