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State support for early childhood education and care in England
[…] the debate in this area. And while there is good evidence that high-quality childcare benefits children’s development, especially children from less advantaged backgrounds, robust evidence on the impact of ECEC on parents’ employment is surprisingly limited. We also know very little about the impact of the policies to support childcare that have been introduced […]
Seasonality in smoking behaviour: re-evaluating the effects of the 2005 public smoking ban in Italy
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population. This is in contrast to what has been […]
Econometric analysis of the impacts of Local Housing Allowance reforms on existing claimants
Role of mode in respondents’ decisions to participate in IP5: findings from a qualitative follow-up study
[…] This design (“mixed modes”) was compared to one in which people were directly contacted by a face-to-face interviewer. This was done to assess, among other things, the impact of a change in data collection method on the proportion of households that responded to the survey. Results from this experiment suggested that offering a mixed […]
Decentralization in Colombia: searching for social equity in a bumpy economic geography
[…] poverty and equalize well-being across the territory. However, after more than 20 years of its implementation a big gap across municipalities still remains. This paper analyses the impact of the Colombia’s fiscal decentralization process over the achievement of social minimums as depicted by the average multidimensional gap and the multidimensional deprivation headcount. We implement […]
Unfinished lives: the effect of domestic violence on neonatal & infant mortality
[…] violence and child mortality, but has yet to present evidence of a causal relationship. In this paper we use an instrumental variable approach to analyse the causal impact of domestic violence against the mother on child mortality in the Indian context. Domestic violence is instrumented with the real price of gold at the time […]
Shadows of the captain of the men of death: health innovation, human capital investment, and institutions
The design of fiscal consolidation measures in the European Union: distributional effects and implications for macroeconomic recovery
The financial and economic crisis which started in the late 2000s and the fiscal consolidation measures to counter the subsequent government budget deficits have an impact on household income distribution and macroeconomic recovery. We consider the austerity measures in relation to their distributional impact and the potential channels through which fiscal consolidation can affect […]