Dr Tim Beatty

The Hamilton method for estimating CPI bias is simple, intuitive, and has been widely adopted. We show that the method conflates CPI bias with variation in cost-of-living across income levels.

This paper received the 2017 Atkinson Award. The award is named Tony Atkinson, who was the founding editor of JPubE in 1972 and served as editor for 26 years, and is given every other year to the best paper published in the Journal of Public Economics.

This paper considers whether households cut back on food spending to finance the additional cost of keeping warm during spells of unseasonably cold weather.

This paper examines the restrictions of revealed preference methods using an axiomatic characterization of a measure of predictive success..

We study the UK Winter Fuel Payment (WFP) and find robust evidence of a behavioural effect of the labelling.

We find evidence that the poorest of older households are unable to smooth spending over the worst temperature shocks.

A well known problem with revealed preference methods is that when data are found to satisfy their restrictions it is hard to know whether this should be viewed as a triumph for economic theory, or a warning that these conditions are so undemanding that almost anything goes. This paper allows researchers to make this distinction.