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W18/11: Redistribution via VAT and cash transfers: an assessment in four low and middle income countries

Tom Harris, David Phillips, Ross Warwick, Maya Goldman, Jon Jellema, Karolina Goraus-Tańska and Gabriela Inchauste

W18/10: Policy discontinuity and duration outcomes

Gerard van den Berg, Antoine Bozio and Monica Costa Dias

W18/09: The determinants of local police spending

Rowena Crawford, Richard Disney and Polly Simpson

W18/08: A lattice test for additive separability

Matthew Polisson

W18/07: Voluntary disclosure schemes for offshore tax evasion

Matthew Rablen and Matthew Gould

W18/06: Climate change and agriculture: farmer adaptation to extreme heat

Fernando M. Aragón, Francisco Oteiza and Juan Pablo Rud

W18/05: Marriage, labour supply and the dynamics of the social safety net

Hamish Low, Costas Meghir, Luigi Pistaferri and Alessandra Voena

W18/04: Lost in translation: What do Engel curves tell us about the cost of living?

Ingvild Almås, Tim Beatty and Thomas Crossley

W18/03: Firm-level investment spikes and aggregate investment over the Great Recession

Richard Disney, Helen Miller and Thomas Pope

W18/01: Family, firms and the gender wage gap in France

Elise Coudin, Sophie Maillard and Maxime To

W17/29: Labour supply responses to financial wealth shocks: evidence from Italy

Renata Bottazzi, Serena Trucchi and Matthew Wakefield

W17/28: Tax design in the alcohol market

Rachel Griffith, Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith

W17/27: Entering the labour market in a weak economy: scarring and insurance

Jonathan Cribb, Andrew Hood and Robert Joyce

W17/26: Who benefits from free health insurance: evidence from Mexico

Gabriella Conti and Rita Ginja

WCWP17/25: Nonlinear micro income processes with macro shocks

Manuel Arellano, Richard Blundell, Stéphane Bonhomme and Martín Almuzara

W17/25: Income inequality and the labour market in Britain and the US

Richard Blundell, Robert Joyce, Agnes Norris Keiller and James Ziliak

W17/24: The dynamic effects of tax audits

Arun Advani, William Elming and Jonathan Shaw

W17/23: The health benefits of a targeted cash transfer: the UK Winter Fuel Payment

Thomas Crossley and Federico Zilio

W17/22: Risk-based selection and unemployment insurance: evidence and implications

Camille Landais, Arash Nekoei, Peter Nilsson, David Seim and Johannes Spinnewijn

W17/21: The short- and long-term effects of student absence: evidence from Sweden

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

W17/20: Lift and shift: the effect of fundraising interventions in charity space and time

Sarah Smith, Kimberley Scharf and Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm

W17/19: The donation response to natural disasters

Sarah Smith, Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm and Kimberley Scharf

W17/18: The impact of health on labour supply near retirement

Richard Blundell, Jack Britton, Monica Costa Dias and Eric French

W17/17: Mobility and the lifetime distributional impact of tax and transfer reforms

Peter Levell, Barra Roantree and Jonathan Shaw

W17/16: Peer effects in risky choices among adolescents

Konstanting Lucks, Melanie Lührmann and Joachim Winter

W17/15: Divided by choice? Private providers, patient choice and hospital sorting in the English National Health service

Walter Beckert and Elaine Kelly

W17/14: Frictions and taxpayer responses: evidence from bunching at personal tax thresholds

Stuart Adam, James Browne, David Phillips and Barra Roantree

W17/13: Estimating the size and nature of responses to changes in income tax rates on top incomes in the UK: a panel analysis

James Browne and David Phillips

W17/12: Updating and critiquing HMRC’s analysis of the UK’s 50% top marginal rate of tax

James Browne and David Phillips

W17/11: Intergenerational income persistence within families

Chris Belfield, Claire Crawford, Ellen Greaves, Paul Gregg and Lindsey Macmillan

W17/10: Can’t wait to get my pension: ?the effect of raising the female state pension age on income, poverty and deprivation

Jonathan Cribb and Carl Emmerson

W17/09: What do consumers consider before they choose? Identification from asymmetric demand responses

Jason Abaluck and Abi Adams

W17/08: Tax avoidance and optimal income tax enforcement

Duccio Gamannossi degl’Innocenti and Matthew Rablen

W17/07: Optimal taxation in occupational choice models: an application to the work decisions of couples

Guy Laroque and Nicola Pavoni

W17/06: 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

W17/05: Is inflation default? The role of information in debt crises

Marco Bassetto and Carlo Galli

W17/04: Who receives medicaid in old age? Rules and reality

Margherita Borella, Mariacristina De Nardi and Eric French

W17/03: Discretizing unobserved heterogeneity

Stéphane Bonhomme, Thibaut Lamadon and Elena Manresa

W17/02: Design of optimal corrective taxes in the alcohol market

Rachel Griffith, Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith

W17/01: Two decades of income inequality in Britain: the role of wages, household earnings and redistribution

Chris Belfield, Richard Blundell, Jonathan Cribb, Andrew Hood and Robert Joyce

WCWP16/24: Binary classification with the maximum score model and linear programming

Joel L. Horowitz and Sokbae (Simon) Lee

W16/24: Explaining low employment rates among older women in urban China

Wenchao Jin

W16/23: ‘Randomisation bias’ in the medical literature: a review

Barbara Sianesi

W16/22: Does more free childcare help parents work more?

Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford and Birgitta Rabe

W16/21: Choice in the presence of experts: the role of general practitioners in patients' hospital choice

Walter Beckert and Kate Collyer

W16/20: The Right to Buy public housing in Britain: a welfare analysis

Richard Disney and Guannan Luo

W16/19: What happens when employers are obliged to nudge? Automatic enrolment and pension saving in the UK

Jonathan Cribb and Carl Emmerson

W16/18: Spillovers of community based health interventions on consumption smoothing

Emla Fitzsimons, Bansi Malde and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

W16/17: Mobility and the lifetime distributional impact of tax and transfer reforms

Peter Levell, Barra Roantree and Jonathan Shaw

W16/16: Life-cycle consumption patterns at older ages in the US and the UK: can medical expenditures explain the difference?

James Banks, Richard Blundell, Peter Levell and James Smith