[…] retirement, we devise a new identifying strategy that combines kink and regression discontinuity designs with panel data methods. Our method is then applied to the British Household Panel Survey, a rich representative longitudinal survey. It is found that retirement has a small impact on primary care use, but overall has little effect on mental health.

[…] families and children in Spain as a whole along the last decade (one of the lowest in the EU). So far, however, little is known about their impact on child poverty in Spain. Making use of the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union – EUROMOD – this paper simulates the eligibility and receipt […]

[…] unemployment which is channelled through the welfare systems to this group of people who are clearly vulnerable to the recession‟s adverse effects. In order to assess the impact of unemployment on household income, counterfactual scenarios are simulated by using EUROMOD, the EU-wide microsimulation model, integrated with information from the EU-LFS data. This paper provides […]

[…] 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 […]

[…] 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 […]

This paper tries to identify the causal impact of labor conditions on health in two different ways. First of all, we will try to isolate the effect of general labor conditions by using the distinction between blue collar and white collar employment. Secondly, we examine the specific effect of smoke-free workplaces by exploiting the […]

[…] not having an initial underlying difference. When groups have an underlying difference, even a small amount of inter-group interactions generates large asymmetries in terms of welfare and prevalence. Hence, failing to account for the equilibrium impact of the interaction structure may lead to over- estimating underlying differences across groups, and therefore to suboptimal immunization plans.

[…] in its importance, which itself may be explained by a fall in nominal interest rates. Finally, a rise in the relative incomes of pensioners and households with children under five has pulled inequality down. Overall, these four factors have almost entirely offset the impact of the rise in earnings and self-employment income inequality since 1991.