[…] 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 […]

This paper considers the impact of tobacco consumption on wages in the UK using data from fifteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey. Considering both overall smoker status as well as the number of cigarettes consumed, we provide estimates for the smoking wage penalty using standard regression methods, including panel estimators for fixed […]

[…] increasing interest in understanding the effect of pregnancy-specific behaviors like dieting, smoking and alcohol consumption on birth outcomes and subsequent development. In this paper we estimate the impact of parental inputs, such as parental smoking and mother’s employment during pregnancy, on children’s birth weight and fetal growth. Biomedical and epidemiological studies which have estimated […]

[…] family and friends in West Germany is an important predictor for the migration hazard rate of East Germans. We then explore whether pre-migration networks have a discernible impact on the economic and social assimilation of East German immigrants in West Germany. We find that East German immigrants are more likely to be employed, and […]

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey for the years 1998-2005, this study estimates the impact of work-related training on earnings levels. Different measures for general and specific training are constructed from available information. The analysis diverges from the standard fixed effects framework for earnings determination modelling and presents evidence in support of […]

[…] children, while usually only gross child/family benefits are considered. We use EUROMOD, the European Union tax-benefit microsimulation model, to quantify the support for children and analyse its impact on household incomes and child poverty for 19 countries. We find that the conventional approach underestimates on average the total amount of support for children by […]

[…] tax with a cash flow flat tax on business income still increases inequality due to the large gains at the top of the distribution. Therefore, we conclude that due to their limited efficiency effects and their problematic short-term distributional impact, flat tax reforms are unlikely to spill over to the grown-up democracies of Western Europe.

[…] year, we are able to show that the attacks of September 11 resulted in higher levels of mental distress for those interviewed after that date in 2001 compared to those interviewed before it. This provides one of the first examples of the impact of a terrorist attack in one country on wellbeing in another country.