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Year: 449 publications
12 December 2011
W11/21

This study evaluates an intervention in the dairy subsector by an Indian livelihood promotion institution and conducts a detailed analysis of the main cost and benet factors of the activity.

11 December 2011
W11/20
Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg, Ralph de Haas, Emla Fitzsimons and Heike Harmgart

Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field experiment in rural Mongolia.

31 October 2011
W11/19
Abigail Barr, Justine Burns, Luis Miller and Ingrid Shaw

This paper presents the findings from two experiments designed to test the hypothesis that individuals' notions of distributive justice are associated with their economic status relative to others within their own society.

19 October 2011
W11/18

This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK.

05 September 2011
W11/17

In this paper, we estimate the separate impacts of tuition fees and maintenance grants on the decision to enter university in the UK.

04 September 2011
W11/16

I develop and estimate a model of the labor market in which precautionary savings interacts with labour market frictions to produce substantial inequality in wealth among ex ante identical workers.

04 September 2011
W11/15

In this paper we provide evidence that the growth in Chinese patenting activity has been accompanied by a growth in Chinese inventors creating technologies that are near to the science base.

01 August 2011
W11/14

This paper uses administrative data to evaluate a targeted, time-limited policy aimed at getting lone parents off benefits and into work.

20 July 2011
W11/12

This paper examines changes in health and disability related transfers in the UK over the last thirty years, and describes how they are related to changes in labour force participation.

01 July 2011
W11/11
Costas Meghir, Mårten Palme and Marieke Schnabel

This study looks at the impact on criminal behaviour of a reform to the number of years' compulsory schooling in Sweden.

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