Professor Costas Meghir

This paper reports on the short run impact of one of the U.K. government's flagship education policies, the Excellence in Cities (EiC) program.

This is the baseline evaluation report of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme.

This is the third report of the longitudinal quantitative evaluation of Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) pilots and the first since the government announced that EMA is to be rolled out nationally from 2004.

We present a short review of Friedman's Permanent Income Hypothesis, the origins of the idea and its theoretical foundations.

Recent theoretical work has shown the importance of measuring microeconomic uncertainty for models of both general and partial equilibrium under imperfect insurance.

In this paper we discuss the issues involved with the evaluation of social interventions and with the attempts at 'scaling them up'.

In this paper we discuss the issues involved with the evaluation of social interventions and with the attempts at 'scaling them up'.

This paper evaluates the effects of a mjor educational reform in Sweden.

Using a sample of individuals from the UK Retirement Survey, the paper models the probability of retirement in terms of the incentives underlying the individual's pension plan as well as other socio-economic factors.

We consider the identification of the average treatment effect in models with continuous endogenous variables whose impact is heterogeneous.

The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) has commissioned a longitudinal evaluation

We extend the collective model of household behavior to allow for the existence of public consumption.

The paper examines the effects of pupil-teacher ratios and type of school on educational attainment and wages using the British National Child Development Survey (NCDS). The NCDS is a panel survey that follows a cohort of individuals born in March 1958 and has a rich set of background variables recorded throughout the individuals' lives.

Using a sample of individuals aged 55 and over from the UK Retirement Survey, this paper models the probability of retirement in terms of the incentives underlying the individual\'s pension plan as well as other socio-economic factors.

This paper is an evaluation of the British labor market program the "New Deal for the Young Unemployed" using administrative panel data on individuals between 1982 and 1999.

n this paper the assumption of i.i.d. income innovations used in previous empirical studies is removed and the focus of the analysis placed on models for the conditional variance of income shocks, that is related to the approporiate measure of risk emphasized by the theory.

In this paper we study the sources of wage growth.

This evaluation focuses on the four models of EMA that were introduced into the