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Year: 417 publications
17 May 2010
W10/12
Kevin Denny, Orla Doyle, Patricia O'Reilly and Vincent O'Sullivan

This study evaluates a university access program that provides financial, academic and social support to low socioeconomic status (SES) students using a natural experiment which exploits the time variation in the expansion of the program across schools.

15 May 2010
W10/11

This paper provides a life-cycle framework for weighing up the insurance value of disability benefi ts against the incentive cost.

14 May 2010
W10/10
Costas Meghir and Steven Rivkin

This paper reviews some of the econometric methods that have been used in the economics of education.

13 May 2010
W10/09
David A. Green and Kathryn Harrison

We examine the setting of minimum wages, arguing that they can best be understood as a reflection of voters' notions of fairness.

12 May 2010
W10/08
Samuel Berlinski and Torun Dewan

We use evidence from the Second Reform Act, introduced in the United Kingdom in 1867, to analyze the impact on electoral outcomes of extending the vote to the unskilled urban population.

11 May 2010
W10/07

This paper uses a survey-based approach to test alternative methods of channeling tax relief to donors - as a tax rebate for the donor or as a matched payment to the receiving charity.

10 May 2010
W10/06

This paper examines the impact of month of birth on national achievement test scores in England whilst children are in school, and on subsequent further and higher education participation.

01 May 2010
W10/04

This paper makes use of newly linked administrative data to better understand the determinants of higher education participation amongst individuals from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

16 April 2010
W10/05

This paper discusses recent developments in the literature that studies how the dynamics of earnings and wages affect consumption choices over the life cycle.

01 April 2010
W10/03

IFS researchers find that the average value of pension accrual is much higher in the public sector than in the private sector.

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