We study whether in practice the Scottish Child Payment (SCP) creates disincentives to work.

We provide new empirical facts on the formation of subjective expectation regarding rarely studied local house price changes.

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Productivity is rising rapidly in English hospitals, but this has not translated into large falls in waiting times.

This paper revisits the problem of power analysis and sample size calculations in randomised experiments.

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Lars Nesheim is a Professor of Economics at UCL and Co-Director of the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap). After obtaining his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2001, he worked for ...

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This paper examines the changes that have been made in the tax system as they affect the personal sector, i.e. changes to taxes on personal income, on personal property and on expenditure.