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When you are born matters : the impact of date of birth on educational outcomes in England

Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Meghir, Costas - 2010

This paper examines the impact of month of birth on national achievement test scores in England whilst children are in school, and on subsequent further and higher education participation. Using geographical variation in school admissions policies, we are able to split this difference into an...

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Is there a "heat or eat" trade-off in the UK?

Beatty, Timothy K. M.; Blow, Laura; Crossley, Thomas F. - 2011

We merge detailed household level expenditure data from older households with historical local weather information. We then test for a heat or eat trade off: do houseolds cut back on food spending to finance the additional cost of keeping warm duing cold shocks? We find evidence that the poorest...

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Identifying the drivers of month of birth differences in educational attainment

Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Greaves, Ellen - 2013

Children born at the end of the academic year have lower educational attainment, on average, than those born at the start of the academic year. Previous research shows that the difference is most pronounced early in pupils' school lives, but remains evident and statistically significant in...

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The impact of age within academic year on adult outcomes

Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Greaves, Ellen - 2013

Children born at the end of the academic year have lower educational attainment, on average, than those born at the start of the academic year. Previous research has shown that the difference is most pronounced early in pupils' school lives, but remains evident and statistically significant in...

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Fluctuations in hours of work and employment across age and gender

Laroque, Guy; Osotimehin, Sophie - 2014

This paper documents the heterogeneity in labor market volatility across ages and gender in the United States over 1976-2014. We separate fluctuations in hours worked into fluctuations in the average number of hours per worker (the intensive margin) and fluctuations in the number of individuals...

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Housing, home ownership, tenure choice, first-time home-buyers, marriage, income risk

Fisher, Jonas D. M. (contributor); … - 2009

We document that home ownership of households with "heads" aged 25-44 years fell substantially between 1980 and 2000 and recovered only partially during the 2001{2005 housing boom. The 1980{2000 decline in young home ownership occurred as improvements in mortgage opportunities made it easier to...

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

Corno, Lucia; Voena, Alessandra - 2016

When markets are incomplete, cultural norms may play an important role in shaping economic behavior. In this paper, we explore whether income shocks increase the probability of child marriages in societies that engage in bride price payments – transfers from the groom to the bride’s parents...

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Should generations differ in their wealth accumulation?

Crawford, Rowena; Sturrock, David - 2019

In the UK, those born between the 1930s and 1950s have seen generation-on-generation increases in wealth, while those born more recently appear to have accumulated no more wealth than their predecessors had done by the same age. There is debate over the drivers, and therefore implications, of...

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Design of optimal corrective taxes in the alcohol market

Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2017

Alcohol consumption is associated with costs to society due to its impact on crime and health. Tax can lead consumers … to internalise these externalities. We study optimal corrective taxation in the alcohol market. We allow for the fact … products can improve welfare relative to a single tax rate on ethanol. We estimate a model of demand in the UK alcohol market …

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Tax design in the alcohol market

Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2017

We study optimal corrective taxation in the alcohol market. Consumption generates negative externalities that are non …-linear in the total amount of alcohol consumed. If tastes for products are heterogeneous and correlated with marginal … framework and empirically for the UK alcohol market. Welfare gains from optimally varying rates are higher the more concentrated …

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