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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

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

Andrew Chesher, Adam Rosen and Yuanqi Zhang

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

Jonathan Cribb and Xiaowei Xu

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

W20/7: Subjective expectations and demand for contraception

Grant Miller, Aureo de Paula and Christine Valente

W20/6: OLS estimation of the intra-household distribution of expenditure

Valérie Lechene, Krishna Pendakur and Alexander Wolf

W20/5: Incentivizing Demand for Supply-Constrained Care: Institutional Birth in India

Alison Andrew and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

W20/3: Estimating the production function for human capital: results from a randomized controlled trial in Colombia

Orazio Attanasio, Sarah Cattan, Emla Fitzsimons, Costas Meghir and Marta Rubio Codina

W20/2: House Price Rises and Borrowing to Invest

Thomas Crossley, Peter Levell and Hamish Low

W20/1: The Impacts of Private Hospital Entry on the Public Market for Elective Care in England

Elaine Kelly and George Stoye

W19/32: Disability Insurance: Error Rates and Gender Differences

Hamish Low and Luigi Pistaferri

W19/31: Principles and practice of taxing small business

Stuart Adam and Helen Miller

WCWP19/23: The effect of classroom rank on learning throughout elementary school: experimental evidence from Ecuador

Pedro Carneiro, Yyannú Cruz-Aguayo, Francesca Salvati and Norbert Schady

W19/22: Variation in end-of-life hospital spending in England: Evidence from linked survey and administrative data

George Stoye and Tom Lee

W19/21: Taxation and Supplier Networks: Evidence from India

Lucie Gadenne, Tushar Nandi and Roland Rathelot

W19/20: Forward guidance: communication, commitment, or both?

Marco Bassetto