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Our approach is to combine new ideas in economic theory with cutting-edge microeconometric methods.
By using data to analyse the characteristics and behaviour of people and firms at a disaggregated level, we can develop a richer understanding of the impact of policy and its social and economic environment than is possible simply from looking at aggregate measures. To help achieve this, our research agenda encompasses investigation of microeconometric methods, policy evaluation methodology and modelling of individual, household and firm behaviour, as well as analysis of particular policy issues and key ingredients for effective policy development.
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Manuel Arellano and Steve Bond
DPD98 for Gauss is a programme written in Gauss by Arellano and Bond to estimate dynamic panel data models using GMM.
Valentino Dardanoni and Peter Lambert
When an income tax or tax-benefit system is applied to the distribution of personal incomes, three effects on the distribution of peoples' living standards can be discerned.
The system GMM estimator in dynamic panel data models combines moment conditions for hte differenced equation with moment conditions for the model in levels.
This paper uses non-parametric regression with smoothness induced by imposition of a roughness penalty to estimate time-dependent relationships between age and intakes of energy, total fat and saturated fatty acids employing data on household food acquisitions from a continuous survey covering the period 1975-94.
Richard Blundell and Steve Bond
Estimation of the dynamic error components model is considered using two alternative linear estimators that are designed to improve the properties of the standard first-differenced GMM estimator.
James Banks and Paul Johnson (eds)
This book presents the results of the analysis discussed at a conference in July 1996 for users and providers of Family Expenditure Survey Data
James Heckman, Hidehiko Ichimura, Jeffrey Smith and Petra Todd
James Heckman, Hidehiko Ichimura and Petra Todd
Stephen Pudney and Jonathan Thomas
We investigate the finite sample performance of a Lagrange Multiplier specification test for competing-risks duration models developed by Pudney and Thomas (1995).
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  We provided evidence to the Browne Review of higher education funding about the impact of a number of higher education finance reforms.
We run a policy evaluation methods course that has trained practitioners inside and outside government how to conduct an evaluation and interpret the results.
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