We study the relationship between child work and cognitive development in four Low and Middle Income Countries. We …

heterogeneity. Our model allows for four main social insurance programmes. In contrast to simpler models that attribute all income … stamps which partially insure productivity risk is greater than the value of unemployment insurance which provides (partial …) insurance against employment risk and no insurance against persistent shocks. -- uncertainty ; life-cycle models ; unemployment …

incomes of parents, with whom many young adults live in the years after leaving education. The interplay between heterogeneity …

administrative hospital and mortality records to examine how the pattern of end-of-life hospital inpatient spending varies across … different groups within a large public hospital system in England. In line with existing studies we find that spending rises …

This paper considers the micro-econometric analysis of patients' hospital choice for elective medical procedures when … assessing hospital quality and focus on tangible attributes, like hospital amenities; and that GPs, in turn, as patients' agents …

heart attacks, strokes and cancer in the past two years. We compare these reports with administrative hospital records to … cancer or heart attack diagnosis, and two-thirds of those who self-report a stroke diagnosis, have no corresponding hospital …This paper uses linked survey responses and administrative hospital records to examine the accuracy of self …

This paper examines the impacts of private hospital entry on publicly funded elective care in England. From 2006 … differentially exposed to private hospital entry, instrumenting hospital entry with the location of private hospitals in the pre …-reform period. We find private hospital entry led to a 12% increase in the overall number of annual publicly funded admissions, and …

spending is distributed across the population. This paper uses administrative National Health Service (NHS) hospital records to … examine key features of public hospital spending in England. We describe how costs vary across the lifecycle, and the … after age 70. Spending is highly concentrated in a small section of the population: with 32% of all hospital spending …