Research
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Journal Publications
"Worker Productivity During Covid-19 and Adaptation to Working From Home", European Economic Review (forthcoming), (w/ Ashley Burdett, Li Tang, Yikai Wang) - link
"Policy Uncertainty and Information Flows: Evidence from Pension Reform Expectations", Economic Journal (January 2023), (w/ Emanuele Ciani, Adeline Delavande and Marco Francesconi) - link
"The Gender Gap in Mental Well-Being During the Covid-19 Outbreak: Evidence from the UK", European Economic Review (June 2022), (w/ Lisa Spantig) - link
"Weather, Mental Health and Mobility During the First Wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic", Health Economics (September 2021), (w/ Ashley Burdett, Apostolos Davillas) - link
"Job Polarisation and the Declining Quality of Knowledge Workers: Evidence from the UK and Germany", Labour Economics (October 2020) (w/ Chiara Cavaglia) - link
"Worker Productivity During Lockdown and Working from Home: Evidence from Self-Reports", Covid Economics (October 2020), (w/ Li Tang, Yikai Wang) - link
"House Prices and Consumption Inequality", International Economic Review (November 2019) - link
"Why are Households That Report The Lowest Incomes so Well-Off?", Economic Journal (October 2017), (w/ Mike Brewer, Cormac O'Dea) - link
"A Test of the Household Income Process Using Consumption and Wealth Data", European Economic Review (August 2015) - link
“Consumption, Income and Earnings Inequality in the UK”, Review of Economic Dynamics (January 2010), (w/ Richard Blundell) - link
“The Environmental and Economic Impacts of the UK Climate Change Agreements”, Energy Policy (October 2006), (w/ Paul Ekins) - link
Working Papers, Drafts and Work In Progress
- "The Economic Value of Childhood Socio-Emotional Skills" (w/ Emilia Del Bono, Paul Garcia) - ISER WP.
- We re-explore the link between childhood socio-emotional regulation and adult outcomes by exploiting under-examined childhood measurements in the BCS70. Most problem behaviours have negative long-term consequences, but poor conduct is associated with beneficial labour market outcomes.- "The Impact of Labour Demand Shocks When Occupational Labour Supplies are Heterogeneous" (w/ Michael Bohm, Aitor Irastorza-Fadrique) - IFS WP.
- Using data from Germany, we show that accounting for heterogeneous substitutability across occupations is important for explaining observed wage and employment changes. These results are important for considering the effect of large ongoing changes to labour demand.- (Older) "Precautionary Saving for Consecutive Life-Cycle Income Risk" (w/ Richard Blundell and Tom Stoker), draft available on request.
- How do young households save when faced with a succession of future risks? We theoretically find that in some situations the interaction of future risks increases the need for saving, in other situations the need for saving declines.