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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

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

W16/15: New Joints: Private providers and rising demand in the English National Health Service

Elaine Kelly and George Stoye

W16/14: The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Alex Armand, Orazio Attanasio, Pedro Carneiro and Valérie Lechene

W16/13: Money or fun? Why students want to pursue further education

Chris Belfield, Teodora Boneva, Christopher Rauh and Jonathan Shaw

W16/12: Housing equity, saving and debt dynamics over the Great Recession

William Elming and Andreas Ermler

W16/11: Can’t work or won’t work: quasi-experimental evidence on work search requirements for single parents

Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer and Andrea Salvatori

W16/10: Consumption during the Great Recession in Italy

Martina Celidoni, Michele De Nadai and Guglielmo Weber

W16/09: The marriage market, labour supply and education choice

Pierre-André Chiappori, Monica Costa Dias and Costas Meghir

W16/08: Selling daughters: age of marriage, income shocks and the bride price tradition

Lucia Corno and Alessandra Voena

W16/07: Taxing high-income earners: tax avoidance and mobility

Alejandro Esteller, Amedeo Piolatto and Matthew Rablen

W16/06: How English domiciled graduate earnings vary with gender, institution attended, subject and socio-economic background

Jack Britton, Lorraine Dearden, Neil Shephard and Anna Vignoles

W16/04: Education policy and intergenerational transfers in equilibrium

Brant Abbott, Giovanni Gallipoli, Costas Meghir and Gianluca Violante

W16/03: Female labour supply, human capital and welfare reform

Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir and Jonathan Shaw

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

WCWP15/24: Production function estimation using subjective expectations data

Agnes Norris Keiller, Aureo de Paula and John van Reenen

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

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