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Bhalotra, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

concentrated on the income elasticity, but this tells us nothing other than that leisure (or education) is a normal good. Using a …, conditioning on full income and a range of demographic variables. Our estimates describe a forward falling labour supply curve for … consequences for these households unless they are compensated for the loss in income. …

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Taxes, cigarette consumption, and smoking intensity: reply

Adda, Jérôme; Cornaglia, Francesca - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to changes in excise taxes and tobacco prices. We exploit data covering the period 1988 to 2006 across many US states. Moreover, we provide new evidence on the importance of cotinine...

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Free to choose?: reform and demand response in the English National Health Service

Gaynor, Martin; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service to assess the impact of relaxing constraints on patient choice. We estimate a demand model to evaluate whether increased choice increased demand elasticity faced by hospitals...

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The part-time pay penalty

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Women working part-time in the UK have hourly earnings that are on average 26 percent less than women working fulltime. Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo investigate what's behind this part-time pay penalty.

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What gives? Household consumption patterns and the ‘Big Trade Off’ with public consumption

Bastagli, Francesca; Hills, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

At the centre of politics in Britain and other countries is what is sometimes called ‘the big trade-off’ – where to strike the balance between private consumption and collective goods and social spending – and hence the sacrifices that would be entailed by the higher taxation required to...

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The part-time pay penalty

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

In 2003, women working part-time in the UK earned, on average, 22% less than women working full-time. Compared to women who work FT, PT women are more likely to have low levels of education, to be in a couple, to have young and numerous children, to work in small establishments in distribution,...

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Eliciting and utilizing willingness to pay: evidence from field trials in Northern Ghana

Fischer, Gregory; Berry, James; Guiteras, Raymond - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

We utilize the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (1964) mechanism to estimate the willingness to pay for clean drinking water technology in northern Ghana. The BDM mechanism has attractive properties for empirical research, allowing us to directly estimate demand, compute heterogeneous treatment effects,...

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Evaluating a decade of mobile termination rate regulation

Genakos, Christos; Valletti, Tommaso - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We re-consider the impact that regulation of call termination on mobile phones has had on mobile customers’ bills. Using a large panel covering 27 countries, we find that the “waterbed” phenomenon, initially observed until early 2006, becomes insignificant on average over the 10-year...

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Measuring income risk

Burgess, Simon; Gardiner, Karen; Jenkins, Stephen P.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the … importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income …

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Access all areas? The impact of fees and background on student demand for postgraduate higher education in the UK

Wales, Philip - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper analyses participation in postgraduate higher education in the UK at the micro-level makes several contributions to the literature. Firstly, it describes trends in postgraduate participation in the UK. Secondly, it introduces a hitherto unavailable dataset of postgraduate tuition fees...

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