Annual Ph.D. Conference at Department of Economics, Queen Mary University of London

Objectives The purpose of this study is to explore the links between education, income, smoking and mortality of people aged sixty-five and over which can be observed in a general purpose longitudinal survey carried out in the United Kingdom, with the aim of examining any trade-off between...

Presentation at 1st Macroeconomic Forecasting Conference, ISAE, Rome. Conference co-hosted by ISAE, INSEE and IFO

This papers identifies the information content at the firm-level of qualitative business survey data by first examining the consistency between these data and the quantitative data provided by the same respondents to the UK's ONS in official surveys. Since the qualitative data are published...

Mortality rates computed from data reported in the British Household Panel Survey are lower than those computed from registration of deaths; the main source of this error is likely to be a failure to distinguish non-response due to unreported death from other forms of non-response. Here we model...

LLAKES International Conference, Institute of Education

Seminar organised as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2008. Confederation of British Industry, London (10 March 2008)

Statistical and Economic Workshop, ONS, Newport (27th October 2009)

This paper examines the effect of lifelong learning on men's employment and wages. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, a variant of the mover-stayer model is developed in which hourly wages are either taken from a stationary distribution (movers) or are closely related to the...