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WCWP01/24: Robust analysis of short panels

Andrew Chesher, Adam Rosen and Yuanqi Zhang

W01/23: Mothers' employment and the use of childcare in the UK

Alan Duncan, Gillian Paull and Jayne Taylor

W01/22: Noisy share prices and the Q model of investment

Stephen Bond and Jason Cummins

W01/21: Pension wealth and household saving: evidence from pension reforms in the UK

Orazio Attanasio and Susann Rohwedder

W01/20: Evaluating the employment impact of a mandatory job search assistance program

Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir and John van Reenen

W01/18: The role of employment experience in explaining the gender wage gap

Michal Myck and Gillian Paull

W01/17: Issues arising in tax and benefit modelling: the case of family credit

Tom Clark and Julian McCrae

W01/16: Differential mortality in the UK

Orazio Attanasio and Carl Emmerson

W01/15: The life-cycle model of consumption and saving

Martin Browning and Thomas Crossley

W01/14: Price and quality in the UK childcare market

Alan Duncan, Gillian Paull and Jayne Taylor

W01/13: A measurement error approach to the study of poverty

Nicoletta Rosati

W01/12: Product market competition, efficiency and agency costs: an empirical analysis

Rachel Griffith

W01/11: The effect of a social experiment in education

Costas Meghir and Mårten Palme

W01/10: Characteristics of foreign-owned firms in British manufacturing

Rachel Griffith and Helen Simpson

W01/09: No more skivvy schemes? Active labour market policies and the British New Deal for the young unemployed in context

John van Reenen

W01/08: Eradicating child poverty in Britain: welfare reform and children since 1997

Mike Brewer and Paul Gregg

W01/07: Income variance dynamics and heterogenity

Costas Meghir and Luigi Pistaferri

W01/06: Limited financial market participation: a transaction cost-based explanation

Monica Paiella

W01/05: The dynamics of investment under uncertainty

Nicholas Bloom, Stephen Bond and John van Reenen

W01/04: The limits of social democracy? Tax and spend under Labour, 1974-79

Tom Clark

W01/03: R&D and absorptive capacity: from theory to data

Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and John van Reenen

W01/02: Criterion-based inference for GMM in autoregressive panel-data models

Stephen Bond, Clive Bowsher and Frank Windmeijer

W01/01: Wages, experience and seniority

Christian Dustmann and Costas Meghir

W00/22: The effect of school quality on educational attainment and wages

Lorraine Dearden, Javier Ferri and Costas Meghir

W00/21: Patents, productivity and market value: evidence from a panel of UK firms

Nicholas Bloom and John van Reenen

W00/20: Wealth inequality in the United States and Great Britain

James Banks, Richard Blundell and James Smith

W00/19: A finite sample correction for the variance of linear two-step GMM estimators

Frank Windmeijer

W00/18: Progressivity comparisons

Valentino Dardoni and Peter Lambert,

W00/17: Crime and economic incentives

Stephen Machin and Costas Meghir

W00/16: Comparing in-work benefits and financial work incentives for low-income families in the US and the UK

Mike Brewer

W00/15: The dynamic effects of real options and irreversibility on investment and labour demand

Nicholas Bloom

W00/14: Household portfolios in the UK

James Banks and Tanner, Tanner

W00/13: The abolition of the earnings rule for UK pensioners

Richard Disney and Tanner, Tanner

W00/12: Estimation in dynamic panel data models: improving on the performance of the standard GMM estimator

Richard Blundell, Stephen Bond and Frank Windmeijer

W00/11: A recursive algorithm to generate piecewise linear budget contraints

Alan Duncan and Graham Stark

W00/10: What do we learn from recall consumption data?

Erich Battistin, Raffaele Miniaci and Guglielmo Weber

W00/09: Functional literacy, educational attainment and earnings - evidence from the international adult literacy survey

Kevin Denny, Colm Harmon and Sandra Redmond

W00/08: The impacts of education and training on the labour market experiences of young adults

Kevin Denny and Colm Harmon

W00/07: New methods for comparing literacy across populations: insights from the measurement of poverty

Kevin Denny

W00/06: Education policy reform and the return to schooling from instrumental variables

Kevin Denny and Colm Harmon

W00/05: Direct estimation of policy impacts

Hidehiko Ichimura and Christopher Taber

W00/04: Who gains when workers train? Training and corporate productivity in a panel of British industries

John van Reenen

W00/03: Identifying demand for health resources using waiting times information

Richard Blundell and Frank Windmeijer

W00/02: Mapping the two faces of R&D: productivity growth in a panel of OECD industries

Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and John van Reenen

W00/01: Optimal taxation and risk sharing

Hamish Low and Daniel Maldoom

W99/28: Nonparametric tests of stochastic dominance in bivariate distributions, with an application to UK data

Ian Crawford

W99/27: Has technology hurt less skilled workers? A survey of the micro-econometric evidence

Lucy Chennells and John van Reenen

W99/26: The geographic distribution of production activity in the UK

Michael Devereux, Rachel Griffith and Helen Simpson

W99/25: Empirical patterns of firm growth and R&D investment: a quality ladder model interpretation

Zvi Griliches and Tor Klette

W99/24: Self-insurance and unemployment benefit in a life-cycle model of labour supply and savings

Hamish Low