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W06/14: State pensions and the well-being of the elderly in the UK

James Banks, Richard Blundell, Carl Emmerson and Zoe Oldfield

W06/13: Child education and work choices in the presence of a conditional cash transfer programme in rural Colombia

Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons, Ana Gómez, Martha Isabel Gutierrez, Costas Meghir and Alice Mesnard

W06/12: The U-shaped relationship between vertical integration and competition: theory and evidence

Philippe Aghion, Rachel Griffith and Peter Howitt

W06/11: The long-term educational cost of war: evidence from landmine contamination in Cambodia

Ouarda Merrouche

W06/10: The social cost-of-living: welfare foundations and estimation

Thomas Crossley and Krishna Pendakur

W06/09: The importance of incentives in influencing private retirement saving: known knowns and known unknowns

Richard Blundell, Carl Emmerson and Matthew Wakefield

W06/08: Dynamic models for policy evaluation

Costas Meghir

W06/07: The economic consequences of being left-handed: some sinister results

Kevin Denny and Vincent O'Sullivan

W06/06: Product market reforms, labour market institutions and unemployment

Rachel Griffith, Rupert Harrison and Gareth Macartney

W06/05: Understanding pensions: cognitive function, numerical ability and retirement saving

James Banks and Zoe Oldfield

W06/04: The effect of pre-primary education on primary school performance

Samuel Berlinski, Sebastian Galiani and Paul Gertler

W06/03: Electoral bias and policy choice: theory and evidence

Timothy Besley and Ian Preston

W06/02: Testing for adverse selection into private medical insurance

Pau Olivella and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

W06/01: Child education and work choices in the presence of a conditional cash transfer programme in rural Colombia

Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons, Ana Gómez, Diana Lopez, Costas Meghir and Alice Mesnard

WCWP05/25: A neyman-orthogonalization approach to the incidental parameter problem

Stéphane Bonhomme, Koen Jochmans and Martin Weidner

W05/25: Is the elasticity of intertemporal substitution constant?

Thomas Crossley and Hamish Low

W05/24: Booms and busts: consumption, house prices and expectations

Orazio Attanasio, Laura Blow, Robert Hamilton and Andrew Leicester

W05/23: Understanding co-operative R&D activity: evidence from four European countries

Laura Abramovsky, Elisabeth Kremp, Alberto López, Tobias Schmidt and Helen Simpson

W05/22: Outsourcing and offshoring of business services: how important is ICT?

Laura Abramovsky and Rachel Griffith

W05/21: Job changes, hours changes and the path of labour supply adjustment

Richard Blundell, Mike Brewer and Marco Francesconi

W05/20: Best nonparametric bounds on demand responses

Richard Blundell, Martin Browning and Ian Crawford

W05/19: Social experiments and instrumental variables with duration outcomes

Jaap Abbring and Gerard van den Berg

W05/18: Choosing among alternative classification criteria to measure the labour force state

Erich Battistin, Enrico Rettore and Ugo Trivellato

W05/17: Dissecting dividend decisions: some clues about the effects of dividend taxation from recent UK reforms

Stephen Bond, Michael Devereux and Alexander Klemm

W05/16: The impact of training on productivity and wages: evidence from British panel data

Lorraine Dearden, Howard Reed and John van Reenen

W05/15: Do the "Joneses" really matter? Peer-group versus correlated effects in intertemporal consumption choice

Jürgen Maurer and Andre Meier

W05/14: Measuring the marginal efficiency cost of redistribution in the UK

Stuart Adam

W05/13: Preparing for retirement: the pension arrangements and retirement expectations of those approaching state pension age in England

James Banks, Carl Emmerson and Zoe Oldfield

W05/12: Job changes, hours changes and labour market flexibility: panel data evidence for Britain

Richard Blundell, Mike Brewer and Marco Francesconi

W05/11: Education subsidies and school drop-out rates

Lorraine Dearden, Carl Emmerson, Christine Frayne and Costas Meghir

W05/10: Parental income and children's smoking behaviour: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

Laura Blow, Andrew Leicester and Frank Windmeijer

W05/09: Estimating pension wealth of ELSA respondents

James Banks, Carl Emmerson and Gemma Tetlow

W05/08: Long-term effects of a mandatory multistage program: the New Deal for young people in the UK

Giacomo De Giorgi

W05/07: Retail productivity

Rachel Griffith and Heike Harmgart

W05/06: Household Nash equilibrium with voluntarily contributed public goods

Valérie Lechene and Ian Preston

W05/05: The impact of parental income and education on the schooling of their children

Arnaud Chevalier, Colm Harmon, Vincent O'Sullivan and Ian Walker

W05/04: Adjustment costs and the identification of Cobb Douglas production functions

Stephen Bond and Mans Soderbom

W05/03: Exploring the returns to scale in food preparation (baking penny buns at home)

Thomas Crossley and Yuqian Lu

W05/02: Borrowing constraints, the cost of precautionary saving and unemployment insurance

Thomas Crossley and Hamish Low

W05/01: Entry costs and stock market participation over the life cycle

Sule Alan

W04/35: Waiting lists, waiting times and admissions: an empirical analysis at hospital and general practice level

Frank Windmeijer, Hugh Gravelle and Pierre Hoonhout

W04/34: Vertical integration and technology: theory and evidence

Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Rachel Griffith and Fabrizio Zilibotti

W04/33: Effectiveness of tax incentives to boost (retirement) saving: theoretical motivation and empirical evidence

Orazio Attanasio, James Banks and Matthew Wakefield

W04/32: How special is the special relationship? Using the impact of US R&D spillovers on UK firms as a test of technology sourcing

Rachel Griffith, Rupert Harrison and John van Reenen

W04/31: Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital

Jérôme Vandenbussche, Philippe Aghion and Costas Meghir

W04/30: The effect of a large expansion of pre-primary school facilities on preschool attendance and maternal employment

Samuel Berlinski and Sebastian Galiani

W04/29: Updating the UK's code for fiscal stability

Carl Emmerson, Christine Frayne and Sarah Love

W04/28: Consumption inequality and partial insurance

Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri and Ian Preston

W04/27: Imputing consumption in the PSID using food demand estimates from the CEX

Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri and Ian Preston

W04/26: Income risk and consumption inequality: a simulation study

Richard Blundell, Hamish Low and Ian Preston