[…] levels of stigma and other claim costs and non-claimants tend to be those with high levels of claim cost. A further aim is to assess the potential impact of implicit claim costs on the measurement of poverty. Implicit costs are found to be moderate for most IS recipients, typically around £3-4 per week (or […]

[…] opportunity to investigate if differentials in the contact and co-operation rates are due to differences in the data collection, personal and household characteristics and/or differences in their impact between countries or between surveys in a same country. If the differentials are explained mainly by differences in the characteristics then it is possible to reduce […]

[…] paper examines the determinants of demand for private medical insurance in Great Britain using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). The main focus is the impact of quality and supply of public health care and the availability of private alternatives on demand. The personal characteristics that determine the demand for private medical […]

[…] in influencing responses between waves. However, while conditioning effects are widely believed to be pervasive in panel survey research, the general consensus appears to be that their impact on marginal distributions is, at most, negligible (Holt 1989). In this paper, we take a somewhat different approach and examine the effect of panel membership on […]

[…] Tax Benefit). The model allows for imperfect information and subjective claim costs and is estimated using data from five years of the Family Resources Survey. We use the model to estimate the distribution of claim costs using the compensating variation principle and assess the impact of claim costs and information search costs on poverty measurement.

[…] financial and in-kind, such as childcare. The empirical analysis is motivated by a theoretical model of an efficient extended family, and a number of predictions about the impact of parents’ and children’s economic resources on these interactions are consistent with the model. But there are also some findings that are hard to reconcile with […]

[…] Tax Benefit). The model allows for imperfect information and subjective claim costs and is estimated using data from five years of the Family Resources Survey. We use the model to estimate the distribution of claim costs using the compensating variation principle and assess the impact of claim costs and information search costs on poverty measurement.

[…] goods * Time spent using ICTs * Time spent travelling and means of travel * Changes in social & leisure activities * Measuring work-life balance and the impact of paid work patterns on lifestyle. As diary data cover the range of daily activities, however, diaries have the potential to contribute to research into a […]