Wealth, gifts and estate planning at the end of life - slides (with Stefan Groot and Jan Möhlmann). Journal of Public Economics, volume 250 (October 2025).
Who gives and receives substantial inter vivos financial transfers in Britain? (with Bee Boileau). Fiscal Studies, volume 46(2) (March 2025)
The impact of work on cognition and physical disability: evidence from English women (with James Banks, Jonathan Cribb and Carl Emmerson). Labour Economics, volume 94 (June 2025).
Social Security and Retirement Around the World: Lessons from a Long-Term Collaboration (with Courtney Coile, David Wise, Axel Börsch-Supan, and the NBER ISS team). Journal of Pension Economics and Finance (September 2024)
Survival pessimism and the demand for annuities (with Cormac O'Dea). Review of Economics and Statistics, 105(2) (March 2023). Replication files
Related Press Coverage: The Wall Street Journal NBER DigestPromises and Endogenous Reneging Costs (with Yuval Heller) - slides; Mathematica code. Journal of Economic Theory, volume 187 (May 2020)
Working Papers
What life events are associated with inter-vivos transfers? (with Bee Boileau). Accepted at Review of Economics of the Household.
The determinants of local housing supply in England (with Elaine Drayton and Peter Levell). R&R at Journal of Urban Economics.
Wealth and Welfare across Generations - slides. R&R at Review of Economic Dynamics.
Book Chapters
Are longer working lives a response to changing financial incentives? Exploiting micro panel data from the UK (with James Banks and Carl Emmerson). in Axel Borsch-Supan and Courtney Coile (eds.) Social security programs and retirement around the world: the effects of reforms on retirement behaviour. University of Chicago Press (March 2025)
Intergenerational mobility in the UK (with Laura van der Erve, Lindsey Macmillan and Sonya Krutikova). Oxford Open Economics, volume 3 (July 2024), part of the IFS Deaton Review: Inequalities in the 21st Century
Related Press Coverage: The GuardianUsing Understanding Soceity to study intergenerational wealth mobility in the UK (with Peter Levell). Fiscal Studies 44 (December 2023)
The effect of the Great Wealth Transfer on inequalities in wealth, consumption and welfare (with Wouter Leenders, Arjan Lejour, Laurence O'Brien, Bluebery Planterose and Kate Smith)
How do house prices affect social mobility? (joint with Peter Levell)
Inheritances, expectations and consumption inequality (with Robert Joyce)
Ethnic inequalities in private pension saving (with Jonathan Cribb and Laurence O'Brien)