The authors investigate the distribution of a measure of housing consumption among public tenants in cities of two Chinese provinces using household survey data. They find the resulting distribution roughly consistent with the outcome of a market rental system for fixed supply and CES...

In 2001 the Minimum Income Guarantee for UK pensioners was reformed, changing the structure and level of benefits. We evaluate the behavioural response to this reform, using nonparametric analysis comparing a sample of pensioners interviewed before and another interviewed after the reform,...