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W03/19: Variations in the price of foods and nutrients in the UK

Ian Crawford

W03/18: Demographics in demand systems

Laura Blow

W03/17: Relative wage variation and industry location

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding, Peter Schott and Helen Simpson

W03/16: The effects of human capital on social capital: a cross-country analysis

Kevin Denny

W03/15: The effect on inequality of changing one or two incomes

Peter Lambert, and Giuseppe Lanza

W03/14: Is there a retirement consumption puzzle in Italy?

Raffaele Miniaci, Chiara Monfardini and Guglielmo Weber

W03/13: Fiscal effects of reforming the UK state pension system

Richard Blundell and Carl Emmerson

W03/12: Survival of the best fit: exposure to low-wage countries and the (uneven) growth of US manufacturing plants

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen and Peter Schott

W03/11: Judicial accountability and economic policy outcomes: evidence from employment discrimination charges

Timothy Besley and A. Payne

W03/10: Falling Trade Costs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Industry Dynamics

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen and Peter Schott

W03/09: Pension fund governance and the choice between defined benefit and defined contribution plans

Timothy Besley and Andrea Prat

W03/08: Incentives, choice and accountability in the provision of public services

Timothy Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak

W03/07: Errors in survey reports of consumption expenditures

Erich Battistin

W03/06: Explaining trends in household spending

Laura Blow

W03/05: Ability, parental background and educational policy: empirical evidence from a social experiment

Costas Meghir and Mårten Palme

W03/04: Measuring taxes on income from capital

Michael Devereux

W03/03: Measuring taxes on income from capital: evidence from the UK

Michael Devereux and Alexander Klemm

W03/02: Ill health and retirement in Britain: a panel data based analysis

Richard Disney, Carl Emmerson and Matthew Wakefield

W03/01: Identifying anti-trust markets

Paul Geroski and Rachel Griffith

W02/22: Productivity convergence and foreign ownership at the establishment level

Rachel Griffith, Helen Simpson and Stephen Redding

W02/21: The distribution of financial wealth in the UK: evidence from 2000 BHPS data

James Banks, Zoe Oldfield and Matthew Wakefield

W02/20: From wages to consumption inequality: tracking shocks

Orazio Attanasio, Gabriella Berloffa, Richard Blundell and Stephen Redding

W02/19: Testing the RPI data for consistency with the theory of the cost-of-living index

Ian Crawford and Isabella Image

W02/18: Aggregate worker reallocation and occupational mobility in the United States: 1971-2000

Giuseppe Moscarini and Francis Vella

W02/17: Estimation of household demand systems with theoretically compatible Engel curves and unit value specifications

Ian Crawford, Francois Laisney and Ian Preston

W02/16: Partial insurance, information and consumption dynamics

Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri and Ian Preston

W02/15: Deadweight loss and taxation of earned income: evidence from tax records of the UK self-employed

Laura Blow and Ian Preston

W02/14: The impact on incentives of five years of social security reform in the UK

Mike Brewer and Tom Clark

W02/13: Political institutions and policy choices: evidence from the United States

Timothy Besley

W02/12: Five years of social security reforms in the UK

Mike Brewer, Tom Clark and Matthew Wakefield

W02/11: Factor price equalisation in the UK

Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding, Peter Schott and Helen Simpson

W02/10: Biases in the reporting of labour market dynamics

Gillian Paull

W02/09: Choice of pension scheme and job mobility in Britain

Richard Disney and Carl Emmerson

W02/08: Collective labour supply with children

Pierre Chiappori, Richard Blundell and Costas Meghir

W02/06: Estimating Euler equations

Orazio Attanasio and Hamish Low

W02/05: The returns to education: a review of the empirical macro-economic literature

Barbara Sianesi

W02/04: Competition and innovation: an inverted U relationship

Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith and Peter Howitt

W02/03: Swedish active labour market programmes in the 1990s: overall effectiveness and differential performance

Barbara Sianesi

W02/02: Understanding the relative generosity of government financial support for families with children

James Banks and Mike Brewer

W02/01: An evaluation of the Swedish system of active labour market programmes in the 1990s

Barbara Sianesi

WCWP01/24: Robust analysis of short panels

Andrew Chesher, Adam Rosen and Yuanqi Zhang

W01/25: Differential effects of Swedish active labour market programmes for unemployed adults during the 1990s

Barbara Sianesi

W01/24: Aggregating labour supply and feedback effects in microsimulation

John Creedy and Alan Duncan

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