Research

Published Papers

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)

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

Survival pessimism and the demand for annuities (with Cormac O'Dea). Review of Economics and Statistics, 105(2) (March 2023). Replication files

Promises and Endogenous Reneging Costs (with Yuval Heller) - slides; Mathematica code. Journal of Economic Theory, volume 187 (May 2020)

Working Papers

Wealth, gifts and estate planning at the end of life - slides (with Stefan Groot and Jan Möhlmann). R&R at Journal of Public Economics.

Wealth and Welfare across Generations - slides. Submitted.

Who gives and receives substantial financial transfers in Britain? (with Bee Boileau). Conditionally Accepted at Fiscal Studies.

What drives the timing of inter-vivos transfers? (with Bee Boileau). Submitted.

The impact of work on cognition and physical disability: evidence from English women (with James Banks, Jonathan Cribb and Carl Emmerson). Submitted.

The determinants of local housing supply in England (with Elaine Drayton and Peter Levell). Submitted.

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 (forthcoming)

Lightly-refereed publications

Using Understanding Soceity to study intergenerational wealth mobility in the UK (with Peter Levell). Fiscal Studies 44 (December 2023)

Work in Progress

Inheritances, expectations and consumption inequality (with Robert Joyce)

Ethnic inequalities in private pension saving (with Jonathan Cribb and Laurence O'Brien)

The effect of early-adulthood wealth transfers (with Arjan Lejour, Laurence O'Brien and Kate Smith)