The theoretical effects of labour regulations such as employment protection legislation on innovation is ambiguous, and empirical evidence has thus far been inconclusive.

This paper studies the role of labour income tax policies when looking at wage inequalities.

We examine the wages of low skilled Canadian workers over the last quarter century and argue that they fit with an implicit contracting model with re-negotiation.

We study the impact of socio-economic status on dropping-out of high school, finding that, together, child ability measured at age 15 and parental valuation of education fully explain differences in drop-out rates between high and low parental education families.

In this paper we analyse the findings from a series of 'public good' games that were conducted between in rural and urban Colombia with mainly poor participants.

This paper studies migration decisions of very poor households in an environment with a high level of violence.

This paper exploits data on the pattern of violence across regions and over time to estimate the impact of the peace process in Northern Ireland on house prices.

This paper examines the impact of in utero exposure to the Asian influenza pandemic of 1957 upon physical and cognitive development in childhood.

We analyse the use of taxes and regulation in combination, to control externalities arising from individual consumption behaviour.

We study food Engel curves among the poor population targeted by a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia.