[…] a statistical model of crime and drug-taking behaviour by people aged 10-19 observed over a four-year period 2003-6 we show that, even if cannabis has no causal impact on the risk of initiation into other drugs, conventional statistical methods tend to show a spurious positive effect of cannabis. Our conclusion is that many research […]

[…] managerial and professional occupations. Meanwhile, housework burdens women with up to fourteen hours of additional work per week. Preferences for shorter hours remain greater among women, reflecting the impact of household time on paid work. The evidence presented in this paper suggests that the distribution of household labor renders dual career households less than egalitarian.

[…] IP3, the experiments carried and the preliminary findings from early analysis of the data. The main design features of Understanding Society are outlined and the design and conduct of IP3 described. The results of methodological experiments carried at IP3 are reported and the impact of IP3 on the design of the main survey is reviewed.

[…] exploit representative household microdata from 11 Eurozone countries to simulate these policy reforms and to study their effects on the distribution of income as well as their impact on automatic fiscal stabilisers. We find that replacing one third of the national tax and transfer systems by a European system would lead to significant redistributive […]