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W21/18: The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Martin O'Connell, Kate Smith and Rebekah Stroud

W21/17: The gendered division of paid and domestic work under lockdown

Alison Andrew, Sarah Cattan, Monica Costa Dias, Christine Farquharson, Lucy Kraftman, Sonya Krutikova, Angus Phimister and Almudena Sevilla

W21/16: Coordination and the poor maintenance trap: an experiment on public infrastructure in India

Alex Armand, Britta Augsburg and Antonella Bancalari

W21/15: Ever since Allais

Aluma Dembo, Shachar Kariv, Matthew Polisson and John Quah

W21/14: The decline of home cooked food

Rachel Griffith, Wenchao Jin and Valérie Lechene

W21/13: Revisiting the solution of dynamic discrete choice models: time to bring back Keane and Wolpin (1994)?

Jack Britton and Ben Waltmann

W21/12: Why do couples and singles save during retirement?

Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French, John Jones and Rory McGee

W21/11: The gender gap in household bargaining power: a portfolio-choice approach

Ran Gu, Cameron Peng and Weilong Zhang

W21/10: Protecting sticky consumers in essential markets

Walter Beckert and Paolo Siciliani

W21/09: Labelled loans and human capital investments

Britta Augsburg, Bet Caeyers, Sara Giunti, Bansi Malde and Susanna Smets

W21/08: Enforcement of labor regulation and the labor market effects of trade: evidence from Brazil

Vladimir Ponczek and Gabriel Ulyssea

W21/07: The intergenerational elasticity of earnings: exploring the mechanisms

Uta Bolt, Eric French, Jamie Hentall-MacCuish and Cormac O'Dea

W21/06: The short- and long-term effects of student absence: evidence from Sweden

Sarah Cattan, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Martin Karlsson and Therese Nilsson

W21/05: A Ramsey theory of financial distortions

Marco Bassetto and Wei Cui

W21/4: Inequalities in responses to school closures over the course of the first COVID-19 lockdown

Sarah Cattan, Christine Farquharson, Sonya Krutikova, Angus Phimister, Adam Salisbury and Almudena Sevilla

W21/03: MPCs through COVID: spending, saving and private transfers

Thomas Crossley, Paul Fisher, Peter Levell and Hamish Low

W21/02: Trade and informality in the presence of labor market frictions and regulations

Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Pinelopi Goldberg, Costas Meghir and Gabriel Ulyssea

W21/01: Examining income expectations in the college and early post-college periods: new distributional tests of rational expectations

Thomas Crossley, Yifan Gong, Todd Stinebrickner and Ralph Stinebrickner

W20/40: Long-term care spending and hospital use among the older population in England

Rowena Crawford, George Stoye and Ben Zaranko

W20/39: How does pension saving change when individuals complete repayment of their mortgage?

Rowena Crawford

W20/38: The impact of house prices on pension saving in early adulthood

Rowena Crawford and Polly Simpson

W20/37: Price floors and externality correction

Rachel Griffith, Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith

W20/36: The impact of child work on cognitive development: results from four low to middle income countries

Michael Keane, Sonya Krutikova and Timothy Neal

W20/35: MPCs through COVID: spending, saving and private transfers

Thomas Crossley, Paul Fisher, Peter Levell and Hamish Low

W20/34: Preparing for a pandemic: spending dynamics and panic buying during the COVID-19 first wave

Martin O'Connell, Aureo de Paula and Kate Smith

W20/33: High-frequency changes in shopping behaviours, promotions, and the measurement of inflation: evidence from the Great Lockdown

Xavier Jaravel and Martin O'Connell

W20/32: Can white elephants kill? Unintended consequences of infrastructure development in Peru

Antonella Bancalari

W20/31: Importing inequality: immigration and the top 1 percent

Arun Advani, Felix Koenig, Lorenzo Pessina and Andy Summers

W20/30: Detecting labour submarkets from worker-mobility networks: a preliminary study

Agnes Norris Keiller

W20/29: Quantifying domestic violence in times of crisis

Dan Anderberg, Helmut Rainer and Fabian Siuda

W20/28: A second chance? Labor market returns to adult education using school reforms

Patrick Bennett, Richard Blundell and Kjell G Salvanes

W20/27: Potential consequences of post-Brexit trade barriers for earnings inequality in the UK

Rachel Griffith, Peter Levell and Agnes Norris Keiller

W20/26: Inequalities in children’s experiences of home learning during the COVID-19 lockdown in England

Alison Andrew, Sarah Cattan, Monica Costa Dias, Christine Farquharson, Lucy Kraftman, Sonya Krutikova, Angus Phimister and Almudena Sevilla

W20/25: Regression with an imputed dependent variable

Thomas Crossley, Peter Levell and Stavros Poupakis

W20/24: Estimating temptation and commitment over the life-cycle

Agnes Kovacs, Hamish Low and Patrick Moran

W20/23: Going solo: how starting solo self-employment affects incomes and well-being

Jonathan Cribb and Xiaowei Xu

WCWP20/23: Identification analysis in models with unrestricted latent variables: Fixed effects and initial conditions

Andrew Chesher, Adam Rosen and Yuanqi Zhang

W20/22: Herding in Quality Assessment: An Application to Organ Transplantation

Stephanie de Mel, Kaivan Munshi, Soenje Reiche and Hamid Sabourian

W20/21: A Job Worth Waiting for: Parental Wealth and Youth Unemployment in Ghana

Stephanie de Mel

W20/20: Labelled Loans and Human Capital Investments

Britta Augsburg, Bet Caeyers, Sara Giunti, Bansi Malde and Susanna Smets

W20/19: Jobs and job quality between the eve of the Great Recession and the eve of COVID-19

Pascale Bourquin and Tom Waters

W20/18: The e?ects of social policies on the working careers of Europeans

Agar Brugiavini, Giuseppe De Luca, Thomas MaCurdy and Guglielmo Weber

W20/17: Inflation spike and falling product variety during the Great Lockdown

Xavier Jaravel and Martin O'Connell

W20/15: The idiosyncratic impact of an aggregate shock: the distributional consequences of COVID-19

Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, Thomas Crossley, Paul Fisher, Annette Jäckle, Hamish Low and Brendan Read

W20/14: Informality, Consumption Taxes and Redistribution

Pierre Bachas, Lucie Gadenne and Anders Jensen

W20/13: How accurate are self-reported diagnoses? Comparing self-reported health events in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing with administrative hospital records

George Stoye and Ben Zaranko

W20/11: Inequality in socio-emotional skills: a cross-cohort comparison

Orazio Attanasio, Richard Blundell, Gabriella Conti and Giacomo Mason

W20/10: Changes in assortative matching: theory and evidence for the US

Pierre-André Chiappori, Monica Costa Dias and Costas Meghir

W20/9: Does more free childcare help parents work more?

Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford and Birgitta Rabe

W20/8: How well targeted are soda taxes?

Pierre Dubois, Rachel Griffith and Martin O'Connell