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W16/02: Technology entry in the presence of patent thickets

Bronwyn Hall, Christian Helmers and Georg von Graevenitz

W16/01: The UK wage premium puzzle: how did a large increase in university graduates leave the education premium unchanged?

Richard Blundell, David Green and Wenchao Jin

W15/33: Income changes and their determinants over the lifecycle

Andrew Hood and Robert Joyce

W15/32: Sanitation and child health in India

Britta Augsburg and Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes

W15/31: Group size and the efficiency of informal risk sharing

Emla Fitzsimons, Bansi Malde and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

W15/30: Melting pot or salad bowl: the formation of heterogeneous communities

Arun Advani and Bryony Reich

W15/29: Shopping around: how households adjusted food spending over the Great Recession

Rachel Griffith, Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith

W15/28: Comparing sample survey measures of English earnings of graduates with administrative data during the Great Recession

Jack Britton, Neil Shephard and Anna Vignoles

W15/27: Redistribution from a lifetime perspective

Peter Levell, Barra Roantree and Jonathan Shaw

W15/26: Unemployment cycles

Jan Eeckhout and Ilse Lindenlaub

W15/25: Revealed preferences over risk and uncertainty

Matthew Polisson, John Quah and Ludovic Renou

W15/24: Earnings and consumption dynamics: a nonlinear panel data framework

Manuel Arellano, Richard Blundell and Stéphane Bonhomme

WCWP15/24: Policy learning with confidence

Victor Chernozhukov, Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Adam Rosen and Liyang Sun

W15/23: A tax micro-simulator for Mexico (MEXTAX) and its application to the 2010 tax reforms

Laura Abramovsky and David Phillips

W15/22: New joints: private providers and rising demand in the English National Health Service

Elaine Kelly and George Stoye

W15/21: Public hospital spending in England: evidence from National Health Service administrative records

Elaine Kelly, George Stoye and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

W15/20: Mutually consistent revealed preference bounds

Abi Adams

W15/19: Wage regulation and the quality of police officer recruits

Rowena Crawford and Richard Disney

W15/18: Global engagement in R&D: a portrait of biopharmaceutical patenting firms

Laura Abramovsky

W15/17: Going beyond simple sample size calculations: a practitioner's guide

Brendon McConnell and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

W15/16: Demand analysis with partially observed prices

Ian Crawford and Matthew Polisson

W15/15: Sanitation dynamics: toilet acquisition and its economic and social implications

Britta Augsburg and Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes

W15/14: A tale of three distributions: inheritances, wealth and lifetime income

Rowena Crawford and Andrew Hood

W15/13: Children, time allocation and consumption insurance

Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri and Itay Saporta-Eksten

W15/12: 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

W15/11: Prices versus preferences: taste change and revealed preference

Abi Adams, Richard Blundell, Martin Browning and Ian Crawford

W15/10: The distribution of school funding and inputs in England: 1993-2013

Luke Sibieta

W15/09: Disability benefit receipt and reform: reconciling trends in the United Kingdom

James Banks, Richard Blundell and Carl Emmerson

W15/08: Value Added Tax policy and the case for uniformity: empirical evidence from Mexico

Laura Abramovsky, Orazio Attanasio and David Phillips

W15/07: Child poverty in Britain: recent trends and future prospects

Robert Joyce

W15/06: 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

W15/05: The right to buy social housing in Britain: a welfare analysis

Richard Disney and Guannan Luo

W15/04: The short run elasticity of National Health Service nurses’ labour supply in Great Britain

Rowena Crawford, Richard Disney and Carl Emmerson

W15/03: Fluctuations in hours of work and employment across age and gender

Guy Laroque and Sophie Osotimehin

W15/02: Labour supply and taxation with restricted choices

Magali Beffy, Richard Blundell, Antoine Bozio, Guy Laroque and Maxime To

W15/01: Constructing full adult life-cycles from short panels

Peter Levell and Jonathan Shaw

W14/34: Empirical methods for networks data: social effects, network formation and measurement error

Arun Advani and Bansi Malde

W14/33: Challenges to promoting social inclusion of the extreme poor: evidence from a large scale experiment in Colombia

Laura Abramovsky, Orazio Attanasio, Kai Barron, Pedro Carneiro and George Stoye

W14/32: Credit Counseling: A Substitute for Consumer Financial Literacy?

Richard Disney, John Gathergood and J?rg Weber

W14/31: Socio-economic differences in university outcomes in the UK: drop-out, degree completion and degree class

Claire Crawford

W14/30: Heterogeneity in graduate earnings by socio-economic background

Claire Crawford and Anna Vignoles

W14/29: Revealed preference and consumption behaviour at retirement

Peter Levell

W14/28: The impact of family composition on educational achievment

Stacey Chen, Yen-Chien Chen and Jin-Tan Liu

W14/27: Optimal tax progressivity: an analytical framework

Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten and Giovanni L. Violante

W14/26: Household consumption when marriage is stable

Laurens Cherchye, Thomas Demuynck, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

W14/25: House prices, wealth effects and labor supply

Richard Disney and John Gathergood

W14/24: What is a minimum wage for? Empirical results and theories of justice

David Green

W14/23: Retirement sorted? The adequacy and optimality of wealth among the near-retired

Rowena Crawford and Cormac O'Dea

W14/22: Cash and Pensions: Have the elderly in England saved optimally for retirement?

Rowena Crawford and Cormac O'Dea

W14/21: The redistribution and insurance value of welfare reform

Jonathan Shaw