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W07/08: Why is consumption more log normal than income? Gibrat's law revisited

Erich Battistin, Richard Blundell and Arthur Lewbel

W07/07: Investment abroad and adjustment at home: evidence from UK multinational firms

Helen Simpson

W07/06: Electoral bias and policy choice: theory and evidence

Timothy Besley and Ian Preston

W07/05: The impact of income shocks on health: evidence from cohort data

Jerome Adda, James Banks and Hans-Martin von Gaudecker

W07/04: The SES health gradient on both sides of the Atlantic

James Banks, Michael Marmot, Zoe Oldfield and James Smith

W07/03: Distributional effects in household models: separate spheres and income pooling

Martin Browning, Pierre Chiappori and Valérie Lechene

W07/02: University research and the location of business R&D

Laura Abramovsky, Rupert Harrison and Helen Simpson

W07/01: Demand properties in household Nash equilibrium

Valérie Lechene and Ian Preston

W06/27: Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle

Hamish Low, Costas Meghir and Luigi Pistaferri

W06/26: Active labour market policy effects for women in Europe - a survey

Annette Bergemann and Gerard van den Berg

W06/25: Inequality and income gaps

Ian Preston

W06/24: Employment, innovation and productivity: evidence from Italian microdata

Bronwyn Hall, Francesca Lotti and Jacques Mairesse

W06/23: R&D, productivity and market value

Bronwyn Hall

W06/22: Incentives and managerial experience in multi-task teams: evidence from within a firm

Rachel Griffith and Andrew Neely

W06/21: Measurement errors in recall food consumption data

Naeem Ahmed, Matthew Brzozowski and Thomas Crossley

W06/20: Financial work incentives in Britain: comparisons over time and between family types

Stuart Adam, Mike Brewer and Andrew Shephard

W06/19: Estimating a collective household model with survey data on financial satisfaction

Rob Alessie, Thomas Crossley and Vincent Hildebrand

W06/18: Giving children a better start: preschool attendance and school-age profiles

Samuel Berlinski, Sebastian Galiani and Marco Manacorda

W06/17: Product market reform and innovation in the EU

Rachel Griffith, Rupert Harrison and Helen Simpson

W06/16: Career progression and formal versus on-the-job training

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

W06/15: A review of static and dynamic models of labour supply and labour market transitions

Michal Myck and Howard Reed

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