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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

W20/3: 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

W20/29: 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

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

W20/2: House Price Rises and Borrowing to Invest

Thomas Crossley, Peter Levell and Hamish Low

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

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

Elaine Kelly and George Stoye

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

W19/32: 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

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

W19/19: OLS estimation of the intra-household distribution of consumption

Valérie Lechene, Krishna Pendakur and Alexander Wolf

W19/18: Temptation and commitment: understanding the demand for illiquidity

Agnes Kovacs and Patrick Moran

W19/17: Developmental origins of health inequality

Gabriella Conti, Giacomo Mason and Stavros Poupakis

W19/16: Regression with an Imputed Dependent Variable

Thomas Crossley, Peter Levell and Stavros Poupakis

W19/15: Complementarities in the Production of Child Health

Laura Abramovsky, Britta Augsburg, Pamela Jervis, Bansi Malde and Angus Phimister

W19/14: What do we really know about the employment effects of the UK’s National Minimum Wage?

Mike Brewer, Thomas Crossley and Federico Zilio

W19/13: The impact of work on cognition and physical disability: Evidence from English women

James Banks, Jonathan Cribb, Carl Emmerson and David Sturrock

W19/12: Why has in-work poverty risen in Britain?

Pascale Bourquin, Jonathan Cribb, Tom Waters and Xiaowei Xu

W19/11: Community matters: heterogenous impacts of a sanitation intervention

Laura Abramovsky, Britta Augsburg, Melanie Lührmann, Francisco Oteiza and Juan Pablo Rud

W19/10: Can Micro-Credit Support Public Health Subsidy Programs?

Britta Augsburg, Bet Caeyers and Bansi Malde

W19/09: Labelled Loans, Credit Constraints and Sanitation Investments

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

W19/08: Wages, Experience and Training of Women over the Lifecycle

Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias, David Goll and Costas Meghir

W19/07: The effect of automatic enrolment on employees working for small employers

Jonathan Cribb and Carl Emmerson

W19/06: Cluster randomised trial of the effects of timing and duration of early childhood interventions in Odisha – India: Study protocol

Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg, Jere Behrman, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Pamela Jervis, Costas Meghir, Angus Phimister and Marta Rubio Codina

W19/05: Preferences and beliefs in the marriage market for young brides

Abi Adams and Alison Andrew