[…] of free school meals to children from the poorest of households, and the extent to which changes in free school meal provision leads to a regionally specific impact on child poverty due to variations of household composition within the English regions and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This paper demonstrates that, first, entitlement to […]

[…] in the future, and if so, which modes to mix and how. The aim of phase II, the object of this report, was to assess the likely impact of a switch to telephone interviewing on data quality and to investigate the causes of mode effects in order to identify ways of mitigating these. The […]

The impact of four labour market policies – employment protection legislation, minimum wages, parental leave and unemployment benefits – on productivity is examined here, using annual cross-country aggregate data on these policies and industry-level data on productivity from 1979 to 2003. We use a ‘difference-in-differences’ framework, which exploits likely differences in the productivity effect […]

[…] suggests that there exist important social returns over and above the private returns to education usually studied by economists. This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual’s political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Years of schooling are found […]

[…] who are young and tall, while men are more attracted to women who are young and thin. We also find that partner’s education and occupation have an impact on desirability, irrespective of gender. Second, there is mild positive sorting in dating preferences along a number of characteristics. Women and men prefer partners of similar […]

[…] across jobs and simply accumulated with time spent in the labor market. In this case, labor market shocks like a job loss do not have a major impact on fertility if they are transitory and have small effects on lifetime income. In considering the fertility response to job displacement we depart from this framework […]

[…] of increasing the childbearing of these households. While many studies have looked at the importance of WFTC on the female labor supply, only few have estimated the impact it had on fertility decisions of British families. This paper employs the 1995 to 2003 British Household Panel Survey and identifies the policy impact of WFTC […]

[…] propensity score matching, we find that those households having children between the recorded waves have considerably worse outcomes in terms of changes in consumption expenditure. The negative impact is however, highly heterogeneous, and varies substantially with education for instance. We then demonstrate how one can make an assessment of the potential effect from omitting […]

[…] can give very useful insights into the cognitive process of answering questions, the social dynamics that develop in an interview context and the way these dynamics ultimately impact data quality. Behaviour coding is a technique used to code such interactions. Despite its long-standing use, little is written about the procedures to be followed while […]