The use of the logistic regression model to predict the probability of response and create non-response weights is classic. In most cases, the model is estimated using socio-demographic variables and all units in the selected sample. However, substantive analyses are often restricted to a...

With decreasing survey response rates, increased costs, and tightened survey budgets, the linking of administrative records to survey data is seen as an important tool for research. The current study analyzes consent decisions in the first wave of Understanding Society: the UK Household...

Using multilevel models on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study this paper shows that disadvantaged young adults (16-35 years old) are more affected by the business cycle than their similarly educated counterparts from more advantaged backgrounds. We propose that a disadvantaged background...

A tax shifting from labour income to housing taxation is generally advocated on efficiency grounds. However, most of the empirical literature focuses on the distributional implications of property tax reforms without paying much attention to potential consequences on the labour market. The aim...

This chapter describes the UK income distribution and how it has evolved over the last 50 years. It also includes some comparisons with the income distributions of other rich countries. Multiple perspectives on the distribution are provided: there is evidence about real income levels and...

Subjective wellâ€being (SWB) is increasingly used as a way to measure individual wellâ€being. Interpreted as “experienced utilityâ€, it has been compared to “decision utility†using specific experiments (Kahneman et al., 1997) or stated preferences (Benjamin et al....

Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework than men may be explained by differences in preferences deriving from differences in gender identity between...

This paper presents two optimising models of individual or parental educational choice, and discusses issues of identification and estimates earnings equations in the context of these models. The estimates indicate that education is endogenous for young men's earnings, but not for young women....

This paper looks at the effect of quitting on the number of workers trained under conditions of uncertainty about future productivity when workers have both firm-specific and industry- specific skills. A new effect is found which works in the opposite direction of the undertraining result of...

The issue of third parties' presence in face-to-face interview situations is a familiar, yet often unexamined phenomenon. Whilst there is often an implicit or explicit instruction to interviewers to interview respondents alone, there is little conclusive evidence to suggest that the presence of...