[…] cycle. We analyse these stylised facts in a panel context, advancing an innovative identification strategy to disentangle age, cohort and time effects. Furthermore, we carefully model the impact of prices by modeling the user cost of durables in the light of substantial price changes for the durable commodities. Given the potential link between the […]

[…] positively correlated. These results of the GGSS shall serve as basis for further analyses on the BHPS. In my paper I analyse the data of the BHPS in order to answer the following question: Compared to my results on the impact of personality on nonresponse, do personality traits affect panel attrition in the same way?

[…] indicate the importance of education relative to social background. While education generally seems to be the more influential factor, findings also suggest that class background has considerable impact in specific locations, e.g. protecting service class offspring from working class employment. Besides these substantive interests in patterns of social mobility and factors involved in processes […]

[…] has little role. On the other hand, Davis, Faberman, Haltiwanger and Rucker (2008) and Fujita and Ramey (2007) suggest that the separation rate is countercyclical, with particular impact on changes in unemployment at the start of a downturn. Three of the first papers to apply these ideas to non-US data are Petrolongo and Pissarides […]

[…] in our estimations. Our results reveal that simple estimates of the effects of depression on IB claims and on contributions to the Exchequer are confounded substantially by observable covariates and unobservable heterogeneity. We also find the effect of depression on IB claims is only a partial assessment of the impact of depression on Exchequer contributions.

[…] union which was dissolved when analysing partnership formation after the breakdown of a union. This paper seeks to contribute to our understanding of repartnering by examining the impact of previous children and relationship histories on the timing and rate of repartnering. We compare the UK and Australia, two countries with similar policy and legislative […]

[…] a weak but significant association between interviewer departures from standard interviewing practice and the occurrence of respondent cognition problems regardless of question type. Dependent interviewing did, however, impact the survey interaction itself. We found that dependent interviewing questions were nearly 6.5 times more likely to be interrupted by respondents than regular survey questions. We […]

[…] discrete-time multinomial logistic hazard models to simultaneously model entry into marriage and cohabitation. Initially, results suggest that the route of entry into lone motherhood has a strong impact on the choice of new union type; those who entered through the dissolution of a marriage are more likely to form a marriage than those entering […]

This paper investigates the effect of asset price fluctuations and labour market conditions on retirement behaviour to gauge the likely impact of the current recession on retirement plans. A number of papers use asset price fluctuations to estimate wealth effects in retirement behaviour in the US. But in contrast to other wealth shocks, asset […]

[…] Children and Child Commissioners established in every country in the UK. It might be expected that all this activity on behalf of children might have had an impact on what children say about their lives. The evidence from this analysis suggests that there has been an improvement in the average level of happiness of […]