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Evaluating the impact of education on earnings in the UK: Models, methjods and results from the NCDS

Blundell, Richard W.; Dearden, Lorraine; Sianesi, Barbara - 2003

Regression, matching, control function and instrumental variables methods for recovering the impact of education on … find an average return of 27% for those completing higher education versus anything less. Compared to stopping at 16 … without qualifications, we find an average return to O-levels of 18%, to A-levels of 24% and to higher education of 48%. …

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Measuring the price responsiveness of gasoline demand : economic shape restrictions and nonparametric demand estimation

Blundell, Richard W.; Horowitz, Joel; Parey, Matthias - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 3 (2012) 1, pp. 29-51

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Measuring the price responsiveness of gasoline demand : economic shape restrictions and nonparametric demand estimation

Blundell, Richard W.; Horowitz, Joel; Parey, Matthias - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 3 (2012) 1, pp. 29-51

This paper develops a new method for estimating a demand function and the welfare consequences of price changes. The method is applied to gasoline demand in the United States and is applicable to other goods. The method uses shape restrictions derived from economic theory to improve the...

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Decomposing changes in income risk using consumption data

Blundell, Richard W.; Low, Hamish; Preston, Ian - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 4 (2013) 1, pp. 1-37

We develop a new approach to the decomposition of income risk within a non- stationary model of intertemporal choice. The approach allows for changes in in- come risk over the life cycle and across the business cycle, allowing for mixtures of persistent and transitory components in the dynamic...

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Consumption inequality and partial insurance

Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; Preston, Ian - 2004

This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the degree of insurance to income shocks. It combines panel data on income from the PSID with consumption data from repeated CEX cross-sections and distinguishes between permanent...

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Changes in the distribution of male and female wages accounting for employment composition using bounds

Blundell, Richard W.; Gosling, Amanda; Ichimura, Hidehiko; … - 2004

assumptions we find convincing evidence of an increase in inequality within education groups, changes in the return to education …

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