This paper examines the dynamic linkages among the federal budget deficit, interest rates and the stock market for the United States from 1960 to 2006.

There is growing policy interest in charitable giving in the UK.This paper brings together recent evidence relevant to the ongoing policy debates.

We compare earnings inequality and mobility across the U.S., Canada, France, Germany and the U.K. during the late 1990s.

This article proposes a structural model for storable goods that takes into account inventory holdings and search.

This paper investigates whether number of children and, among parents, having a daughter is associated with older people's likelihood of at least weekly face-to-face social contact and later receipt of help if needed.

This paper provides an overview of the growing literature that uses microlevel data from multiple countries to investigate health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at older ages.

Conventional generational accounting only includes future benefits and burdens from the government. This paper's contribution is to include past benefits and burdens as well, and in this way to provide a full lifetime account of how much current and future generations benefit from government, in net terms, under various future policy lines.

In 2003, the French government decided to reform the system managing the different minimum wage regulations and the targeted reductions to employers' social security contributions.