Presentation given at the Unversity of Bath on 24th January 2013

Article for Prospect Magazine 23rd January 2013.

This presentation about the how the Dilnot commission proposals could be financed was given at the a seminar organised by Lord Lipsey and Partnership at the House of Lords on 23rd January 2013

In this paper, we use a dynamic model to show how a lifecycle perspective alters our impression of the effect of the tax and benefit system on female work incentives.

It's not just about who's better or worse off, the bill represents something deeper and more interesting about pensions policy. Article in the Guardian.

IFS analysis of this month's public finance figures.

This paper develops methodology for semiparametric panel data models in a setting where both the time series and the cross section are large.

This paper studies the problem of specification testing in partially indentified models defined by a finite number of moment equalities and inequalities (i.e., (in)equalities).

Today the Government will publish a White Paper detailing plans to replace the current Basic State Pension and State Second Pension with a single state pension. The proposed reforms would be a welcome simplification of the current rather complex rules, particularly in the short run, but they also imply a reduction in the state pensions that most people born after around 1970 can expect to receive from the state. This cut in the generosity of pension benefits for currently young people will help reduce public spending on pensioners in the longer-run as pressures from an ageing population intensify. Reducing state support will also increase the incentives for younger cohorts to save privately for their retirement.