We study the UK Winter Fuel Payment (WFP) and find robust evidence of a behavioural effect of the labelling.

We find evidence that the poorest of older households are unable to smooth spending over the worst temperature shocks.

This document describes the UK tax and benefit system between April 1990 and April 2010, as implemented in FORTAX.

We show that lottery players display higher income effects than non-players but only amongst those likely to be credit constrained.

We find that higher minimum wages are associated with significantly lower hiring and layoff rates.

University tuition fees for undergraduates were abolished in Ireland in 1996. This paper examines the effect of this reform on the socio-economic gradient.

We exploit the change to the minimum school-leaving age in the United Kingdom from 14 to 15 using a regression discontinuity design to evaluate the causal effect of one more year of education on cognitive abilities at older ages.

This paper shows that there are large differences in cognitive and socio-emotional development between children from rich and poor backgrounds.

We use a unique dataset to construct measures of lifetime earnings and examine how these relate to financial resources in retirement.

This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France.