Research
Research
Crossley, T.F, P. Fisher, P. Levell, and H. Low. "Eliciting the Marginal Propensity to Consume in Surveys" Institute for Fiscal Studies Working paper 25/25.
Crossley, T.F, P. Levell and Sofia Sierra Vasquez. "What would you do with £500? (...in your own words)." Institute for Fiscal Studies Working paper 24/38.
Vine, J., Al Baghal, T., Burton, J., Couper, M. P., Crossley, T. F., ......... & S. Walzenbach. (2023). Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 15: Results from methodological experiments. Understanding Society Working Paper 2023-10.
Al Baghal, T., M. Benzeval, J. Burton, T.F. Crossley, M. Kumari and S. Rajatileka, "Collection of biomarkers using nurses, interviewers, and participants: the design of IP12." Understanding Society Working Paper 2021-06.
Jäckle, A., J. Burton, M.P. Couper, T.F. Crossley and S. Walzenbach, "Understanding and improving data linkage consent in surveys." Understanding Society Working Paper 2021-01.
Benzeval, M., C.R. Bollinger, J.Burton, T.F. Crossley and P.Lynn, "The representativeness of Understanding Society." Understanding Society Working Paper 2020-08.
Benzeval, M., C.R. Bollinger, J. Burton, M.P. Couper, T.F. Crossley and A. Jäckle, "Integrated data: research potential and data quality." Understanding Society Working Paper 2020-02.
Burton, J., R. Connelly, M.P. Couper, T.F. Crossley, C. De Vries,V. Gayle, ... and A. Wenz. (2019). Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 11: Results from methodological experiments. Understanding Society Working Paper 2019-03.
Suffield, M., H. Hasbrouck, A. Coulter, A. Jäckle, J. Burton, T. F. Crossley, M. P. Couper and C. Lessof (2018) Understanding how people think about their daily spending, Understanding Society Working Paper 2018-02.
Chisholm, T., H. Hasbrouck, A. Coulter, A. Jäckle, J. Burton, T.F. Crossley, P. Fisher, and J. Winter, (2017). Understanding how people conceptualise household finances, Understanding Society Working Paper 2017-12.
Benzeval, M., A. Bianchi, M. Brewer, J. Burton, A. Cernat, M. Creighton, M.,T.F. Crossley,...and B. Zafar, (2017). Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 9: Results from methodological experiments. Understanding Society Working Paper Series 2017-07.
Allum, N., Auspurg, K., Blake, M., Booker, C. L., Crossley, T. F., d'Ardenne, J., ... & Al Baghal, T. (2014). Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 6: Results from methodological experiments. Understanding Society Working Paper Series 2014-04.
Moore, J. J. Burton, T.F. Crossley, P. Fisher, C. Gardiner, A. Jäckle and M. Benzeval, "Assessing bias prevention and bias adjustment in a sub-annual online panel survey." Conditionally accepted at Survey Research Methods.
Burton, J., M.P. Couper, T. F. Crossley, A.Jäckle and S. Walzenbach, "How do survey respondents decide whether to consent to data linkage?" Sociological Methods and Research, (July 2025)
Al Baghal. T, J. Burton, J., T.T. Crossley, M. Benzeval, and M. Kumari, "The Impact of Different Mixed-Mode Data Collection Approaches on Response Rates and Provision of Biomeasure Samples." Public Opinion Quarterly, (June 2025).
Crossley, T.F., Y.Gong, R. Stinebrickner and T. Stinebrickner, “Examining Income Expectations in the College and Early Post-college Periods: New Distributional Tests of Rational Expectations." Journal of the European Economic Association, 22(6): 2700-2747. (December 2024).
Jäckle, A. J. Burton, M.P. Couper, T. F. Crossley and S. Walzenbach, “Survey Consent to Administrative data Linkage: Five experiments on wording and format," Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 12(5):1174-1199. (November 2024).
Crossley, T.F., P. Levell and H. Low, "House Price Rises and Borrowing to Invest." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 223: 83-105. (July 2024).
Benzeval, M., Crossley, T. F., & Aguirre, E., “A symposium on Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study: Introduction.” Fiscal Studies, 44(4):317–340. (December 2023).
Kumari, M., A., Andrayas, T. Al Baghal, J. Burton, T.F. Crossley, K.S. Jones, D.A. Parkington, A. Koulman and M. Benzeval, “A randomised study of nurse- and self-collected dried blood spots for the assessment of cardiovascular risk factors in the Understanding Society Innovation Panel.” Scientific Reports, 13: 13008, (August 2023).
Crossley, T.F., P. Fisher, P. Levell and H. Low, "A year of COVID: the evolution of labour market and financial inequalities through the crisis." Oxford Economic Papers, 75(3):589-612, (July 2023).
Walzenbach, S., J.Burton, M.Couper, T.F.Crossley and A. Jäckle, “Experiments on multiple requests for consent to data linkage in surveys” Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 11(3): 518-540, (June 2023).
Benzeval, M., A. Andrayas, J. Mazza, T. Al Baghal, J. Burton, T. F. Crossley and M. Kumari, "Does the feedback of blood results in observational studies influence response and consent? A randomised study of the Understanding Society Innovation Panel", BMC Medical Research Methodology, 23, Article number:134, (June 2023).
Crossley, T.F., P. Fisher and O. Hussein, “Assessing data from summary questions about earnings and income." Labour Economics, 81, 102331, (April 2023).
Crossley, T.F., P. Fisher, P. Levell and H. Low, “Stimulus payments and private transfers." Economic Letters, 222, 110944, (January 2023).
I have published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as a number of invited articles and book chapters. Here are some favorites, organized by broad area. For a full list, see my CV.
Crossley, T.F., P. Levell and S. Poupakis, “Regression with an Imputed Dependent Variable.” Journal of Applied Econometrics, 37(7):1277-1294, (November, 2022).
Supplemental Appendix with proofs and Monte Carlo Simulations.
STATA package for Re-Scaled Regression Prediction.
Replication files at JAE archive.
Crossley, T.F., P. Fisher and H. Low, The Heterogeneous and Regressive Consequences of COVID-19: Evidence from High Quality Panel Data. Journal of Public Economics, 193, 104334, (January 2021).
Crossley, T.F., T. Schmidt, P. Tzamourani and J.K Winter, "Interviewer Effects and the Measurement of Financial Literacy." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 184:150-178 (January 2021).
Crossley, T.F., J. De Bresser, L. Delaney and J. Winter, “Can Survey Participation Alter Household Saving Behaviour?” Economic Journal, 127(606): 2332-2357. (November, 2017).
Carroll, C., T.F. Crossley and J. Sabelhaus, Eds., Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures. Studies in Income and Wealth, Volume 74. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2015). Introduction (NBER WP version).
Browning, M., T.F. Crossley and J.K. Winter, “The Measurement of Household Consumption Expenditures,” Annual Review of Economics, 6:475-501. (August, 2014).
Crossley, T.F., and K. Pendakur, “The Common-Scaling Social Cost-of-Living Index,” Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 28(4): 523-538. (October, 2010).
Browning, M. and T.F. Crossley. “Are Two Cheap, Noisy Measures Better than One Expensive, Accurate One?” American Economic Review (P&P), 99(2):99-102, (May, 2009).
Browning, M., T.F. Crossley and G. Weber. “Asking Consumption Questions in General Purpose Surveys,” Economic Journal, 113:F540-F567, (November, 2003).
Crossley, T.F. and S. Kennedy. “The Reliability of Self Assessed Health Status,” Journal of Health Economics, 21(4):643-658, (July, 2002).
Crossley, T.F., P. Fisher, Peter Levell and H. Low, MPCs in an economic crisis: Spending, saving and private transfers. Journal of Public Economics Plus, 2, 100005, (September 2021).
Crossley, T.F., H. Low and S. Smith, “Do Consumers Gamble to Convexify?” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 131(A):276-291. (November, 2016).
Crossley, T.F., and H. Low, “Job Loss, Credit Constraints and Consumption Growth,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 96(5):876-884 (December, 2014.)
Beatty, T.K., L. Blow and T.F. Crossley “Is There a "Heat or Eat" Trade-off in the UK?” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 177(Part 1): 281–294. (January 2014).
Crossley, T.F., and H. Low, “Is the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution Constant?” Journal of the European Economic Association. 9(1):87-105. (February, 2011).
Browning, M. and T.F. Crossley, “Shocks, Stocks and Socks: Smoothing Consumption over a Temporary Income Loss,” Journal of the European Economic Association, 7(6):1169-1192. (December, 2009).
Browning, M. and T.F. Crossley, “The Long Run Costs of Job Loss as Measured by Consumption Changes,” Journal of Econometrics, 145:109–120, (July, 2008).
Browning, M. T.F. Crossley and E. Smith, “Asset Accumulation and Short Term Employment,” Review of Economic Dynamics, 10:400–423, (July, 2007).
Browning, M. and T. F Crossley. “The Life-Cycle Model of Consumption and Savings,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15(3):3-22, (Summer 2001).
Browning, M. and T.F. Crossley. “Unemployment Insurance Levels and Consumption Changes,” Journal of Public Economics, 80(1):1-23, (April, 2001).
Browning, M. and T.F. Crossley. “Luxuries are Easier to Postpone: A Proof,” Journal of Political Economy, 108(5):1022–6, (October, 2000).
Crossley, T.F. and F. Zilio, “The Health Benefits of a Targeted Cash Transfer: the UK Winter Fuel Payment.” Health Economics, 27(9):1354-1365. (September, 2018).
Beatty, T.K., L. Blow, T.F. Crossley and C. O’Dea, “Cash By Any Other Name? Evidence on Labelling From the UK Winter Fuel Payment,” Journal of Public Economics, 118:86-96 (October, 2014). This paper was awarded the Atkinson Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Public Economics in the three-year window 2014-16.
Crossley, T.F., and M. Jametti, “Pension Benefit Insurance and Pension Plan Portfolio Choice,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 95(1):337-341. (March, 2013).
Alan, S., K. Atalay, S. Jeon, and T.F. Crossley. “New Evidence on Taxes and Portfolio Choice,” Journal of Public Economics, 94:813–823. (December, 2010).
Alan, S., T.F. Crossley, P. Grootendorst and M. Veall. “The Effects of Drug Subsidies on Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures by Seniors: Regional Evidence from Canada,” Journal of Health Economics, 21(5):87-108, (September, 2002).