Panel conditioning and scale reliability: evidence from the British Household Panel Study

[…] in influencing responses between waves. However, while conditioning effects are widely believed to be pervasive in panel survey research, the general consensus appears to be that their impact on marginal distributions is, at most, negligible (Holt 1989). In this paper, we take a somewhat different approach and examine the effect of panel membership on […]

Participation in Multiple Welfare Programmes: discrete choice with heterogeneous awareness

[…] Tax Benefit). The model allows for imperfect information and subjective claim costs and is estimated using data from five years of the Family Resources Survey. We use the model to estimate the distribution of claim costs using the compensating variation principle and assess the impact of claim costs and information search costs on poverty measurement.

Parent and Adult-child Interactions: empirical evidence from Britain

[…] financial and in-kind, such as childcare. The empirical analysis is motivated by a theoretical model of an efficient extended family, and a number of predictions about the impact of parents’ and children’s economic resources on these interactions are consistent with the model. But there are also some findings that are hard to reconcile with […]

Participation in Multiple Welfare Programmes: discrete choice with heterogeneous awareness

[…] Tax Benefit). The model allows for imperfect information and subjective claim costs and is estimated using data from five years of the Family Resources Survey. We use the model to estimate the distribution of claim costs using the compensating variation principle and assess the impact of claim costs and information search costs on poverty measurement.

Time Diary Design for Measuring the Risks Associated with Lifestyles

[…] goods * Time spent using ICTs * Time spent travelling and means of travel * Changes in social & leisure activities * Measuring work-life balance and the impact of paid work patterns on lifestyle. As diary data cover the range of daily activities, however, diaries have the potential to contribute to research into a […]

Participation in Multiple Welfare Programmes: discrete choice with heterogeneous awareness

[…] Tax Benefit). The model allows for imperfect information and subjective claim costs and is estimated using data from five years of the Family Resources Survey. We use the model to estimate the distribution of claim costs using the compensating variation principle and assess the impact of claim costs and information search costs on poverty measurement.