Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and … malleable at later ages. This has important implications for the design of policy. The gaps in skills and abilities open up …

method to investigate the sensitivity issue under the unconfoundedness assumption. We find that the estimates are not … speciously robust in the sense that the treatment effects are consistently overestimated or underestimated. Sensitivity checks …

sensitivity of estimated treatment effects with respect to unobserved heterogeneity or failure of the common support condition …

availability drastically overstate the extent to which employees perceive that family-friendly are accessible to them personally …Using linked data for British workplaces and employees we find a low base rate of workplacelevel availability for five … family-friendly work practices - parental leave, paid leave, job sharing, subsidized child care, and working at home - and a …

bivariate distribution. The versatility arising from inserting GTL marginal distributions into copula-constructed bivariate … expenditures to speeding tickets and international disputes illustrate the value of the proposed GTL-copula estimator. …

been influential in formulating a strict drug policy in many western countries. Individual differences in proneness and … different policy implications. We propose a Bayesian estimation and predictive framework to analyze the effects and relative … importance of previous cannabis use, proneness and accessibility factors on hard drug initiation and to explore potential policy …

activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. …