This CASEbrief summarises 'Paying for health, education and housing: how does the centre pull the purse strings?' by Howard Glennerster, John Hills and Tony Travers, with Ross Hendry, published by the Oxford University Press

This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 40, Measuring Income Risk by Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner, Stephen Jenkins and Carol Propper

This paper aspires to argue in favour of a simple, but fundamental, hypothesis. This hypothesis is that economic growth is neither the cause of nor the solution to environmental problems and that therefore both anti-growth environmentalists and pro-growth neoclassical environmental economists...

Previous studies of smoking risk beliefs have focused almost exclusively on risks to the smoker. Using an original set of survey data from Spain, we examine the public’s perceived risks from exposures to environmental tobacco smoke. The risk categories considered included lung cancer, heart...

The past environment for voluntary action conceived of voluntary organisations as acting as an “extension ladder” for the state. But the changes now taking place in the state’s role has fundamentally changed the context. The paper explores various alternative responses, including greater...

We define new procedures for estimating generalized additive nonparametric regression models that are more efficient than the Linton and Härdle (1996, Biometrika 83, 529–540) integration-based method and achieve certain oracle bounds. We consider criterion functions based on the Linear...

The voluntary or third sector in England is now receiving more sustained attention from policy makers than ever before. This paper claims that this situation, particularly as given tangible expression through the development of a Compact between the Government and representatives of the third...

This paper examines two competing views that have been put forward about the East German third sector. One view sees the third sector in East Germany as an expression of civil society, rooted in an emerging democratic culture, and based on a broadening social participation. According to the...

This paper charts the economic contribution of the third sector in the UK, noting its significant presence in core welfare state fields, and setting it in comparative international context. It then offers a conceptual framework, the “production of welfare” approach, for analysing how the...