I have published in the top economics journals, including the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Political Economy and the American Economic Review, but also in leading journals in other disciplines, such as JAMA, PNAS, Health Psychology, Demography and Psychological Science.
For a full and up to date list of publications it's probably best to see my google scholar pages or my CV. Most of the key ones are listed below, sorted by type.
‘The impact of work on cognition and disability: Evidence from English women’, in Labour Economics, 2025, 94, 102730, (with Jonathan Cribb, Carl Emmerson and David Sturrock)
‘Social Security and retirement around the world: Lessons from a long term collaboration’, 2025, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 24 (1), 8-30, (with Courtney Coile, David Wise, Axel Boersch Supan, Jonathan Gruber and 80 others)
‘Changing labour market and income inequalities in Europe and North America: a parallel project to the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities in the 21st century’, 2024, Fiscal Studies, 45(2), 111-117, (with Richard Blundell, Antoine Bozio, Jonathan Cribb, David Green and James Ziliak)
‘Inequalities in Disability’, IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities, 2023, Oxford Open Economics, 3 (supplement 1), i529-i548, (with Heidi Karjalainen and Tom Waters)
‘Managing Retirement Incomes’. Annual Reviews of Economics, 2022, 14, (with Rowena Crawford)
‘International differences in interspousal health correlations’, Health Economics, 30 (5), 1152-1177 (with Iris Kesternich and James P Smith)
‘Mortality inequality in England over the past 20 years’, Fiscal Studies, 42 (1), 47-77, (with Sarah Cattan, Lucy Kraftman, Sonya Krutikova)
‘The mental health effects of the first two months of lockdown and social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK’, Covid Economics, 2020, Issue 28 (12 June), 91-118 and Fiscal Studies, 2020, 41(3) special issue on Covid Inequalities, (joint with Xiaowei Xu)
‘Recessions and health: The long-term health consequences of responses to the Coronavrius’, Fiscal Studies, 41(2), June 2020 (joint with Heidi Karjalainen and Carol Propper)
‘Empirical Microeconomics in Changing Times: A Reflection on 50 Years of IFS Research’, Fiscal Studies, 40(4), 451-484, 2020 (joint with Richard Blundell)
‘The powerful combination of cross-country comparisons and life-history data’, Journal of Economics of Ageing, vol 16, June 2020, 100206, (joint with Agar Brugiavini and Giacomo Pasini)
‘Changing Attitudes to Risk at Older Ages: The role of health and other life events’, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, (joint with Elena Bassoli and Irene Mammi)
‘Does patient health behaviour respond to doctor effort?’, 2018, in Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, (joint with Eleonora Fichera, Luigi Siciliani and Matt Sutton)
‘Life-cycle consumption patterns at older ages in the US and the UK: Can medical expenditures explain the difference?’, 2019, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 11(3), 27-54, (joint with Richard Blundell, Peter Levell and James P Smith)
‘Education, decision making and economic rationality’, 2018, Review of Economics and Statistics, (joint with Leandro Carvalho and Francisco Perez-Arce)
‘An econometric analysis of cognitive impairment and healthcare utilization in the ageing population’, 2018, in Applied Economics, (with Brenda Gannon, James Nazroo and Luke Munford)
‘Health, Disability and Mortality differences at older ages between the US and England’, 2016, Fiscal Studies, 37, 3-4, pp 345-369, (with James P Smith and Soumaya Keynes)
‘Annuity choices and income drawdown: Evidence from the decumulation phase of defined contribution pensions in England’, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 14(2015), 412-338. (with Gemma Tetlow and Rowena Crawford)
‘Disability Benefit Receipt and Reform: Reconciling Trends in the United Kingdom’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 29, Number 2, Spring 2015, 173-190 (with Richard Blundell and Carl Emmerson)
‘Financial crisis wealth losses and responses among older households in England’ Fiscal Studies, 34 (2), 2013, 231-254 (with Rowena Crawford, Tom Crossley and Carl Emmerson)
‘International Comparisons in Health Economics: Evidence from Aging Studies’, Annual Review of Economics, Volume 4, 57-81, with James P Smith
‘The effect of education on old age cognitive abilities: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design’, Economic Journal, Vol 122, Issue 560, May 2012, 418-448, (with Fabrizio Mazzonna)
‘Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the USA’, Economica, Vol 79, No. 313, 1-26, 2012 (Online First: March 2011), (with Richard Blundell, Zoë Oldfield and James P Smith)
‘Cognitive function, numeracy and retirement savings trajectories’, Economic Journal, 2010, Vol. 120, Issue 548 (with Cormac O’Dea and Zoë Oldfield)
‘The Impact of Income Shocks on Health: Evidence from cohort data’, in Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 7, no. 6, December 2009, 1361-1399 (with Jerome Adda and Hans Martin von Gaudecker)
‘Understanding pensions: Cognitive Function, Numerical Ability and Retirement Saving’, Fiscal Studies, 28(2), 143-170, June 2007 (with Zoë Oldfield)
‘Economic choices, capabilities and outcomes at older ages’, Fiscal Studies¸ September 2006, Vol 27, No. 3, pp. 281-311
‘Retirement in the UK’, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 22(1), 44-56, 2006 (with Sarah Smith)
‘Private pension arrangements and retirement in Britain’, Fiscal Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1, March 2005, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 35-53. (with Richard Blundell)
‘The internationalisation of public welfare policy’, Economic Journal, 2005, Vol 15, No.502 (March), C62-C81 (with Richard Disney, Alan Duncan and John van Reenen)
‘The balance between defined benefit, defined contribution and state provision, April 2005, Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 3, No. 2-3, pp. 466-476. (with Richard Blundell and Carl Emmerson)
‘Understanding differences in household financial wealth between the United States and Great Britain’, Journal of Human Resources. Volume XXXVIII, No 2, Spring 2003 (with Richard Blundell and James P Smith), 241-279.
‘Asset holding and consumption volatility’, Journal of Political Economy, 2002, 110(4) 771–792 (with Orazio Attanasio and Sarah Tanner).
‘Risk pooling, precautionary saving and consumption growth’, Review of Economic Studies, 2001, 68 (4), 757–779 (with Richard Blundell and Agar Brugiavini)
‘The assessment: Household saving — Issues in theory and policy’, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2001, Vol 17 Issue 1 (Spring), (with Orazio Attanasio)
‘Lifetime saving patterns and pension arrangements in the UK’, Ricerche Economiche, special issue on international comparisons of household saving behaviour, 2001, Vol 55 No 1, 83-107, (with Susann Rohwedder)
‘What can we learn about pension reform from Generational Accounts for the UK?’, Economic Journal, 2000, Vol 110. No 467, F575-F597, (with Richard Disney and Zoë Smith)
‘Public and private pensions: principles, practice and the need for reform’, Fiscal Studies, 2000, 21 (1). (with Carl Emmerson)
‘Humps and bumps in lifetime consumption’, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 1999, vol. 17, no. 1, 22–35. (with Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir and Guglielmo Weber)
‘Household saving: Analysing the saving behaviour of different generations’, Economic Policy, 1998, vol. 27, October, 549–583. (with Orazio Attanasio)
‘Is there a retirement-savings puzzle?’, American Economic Review, 1998, vol. 88, No. 4, 769–788. (with Richard Blundell and Sarah Tanner)
‘Quadratic Engel Curves and Consumer Demand’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 1997, vol. 79, No. 4, 527-539. (with Richard Blundell and Arthur Lewbel)
‘Tax reform and welfare measurement: Do we need demand system estimation?’, Economic Journal, 1996, vol. 106, 1227–1241. (with Richard Blundell and Arthur Lewbel)
‘Savings and wealth in the UK: Evidence from micro-data’, Fiscal Studies, 1996, vol. 17, No.2. (with Sarah Tanner)
‘Consumption growth, saving and retirement in the UK’, Richerche Economiche, 1995, vol. 49, 255–275. (with Richard Blundell and Sarah Tanner)
‘Life-cycle expenditure allocations and the consumption costs of children’, European Economic Review, 1994, vol. 38, pp. 1391–1410. (with Richard Blundell and Ian Preston)
‘Equivalence scale relativities revisited’, Economic Journal, 1994. vol. 104, pp. 883–890. (with Paul Johnson)
‘Equivalence scales and public policy’, Fiscal Studies, 1994. vol. 15, pp. 1–23. (with Paul Johnson)
‘Adult equivalence scales: a life-cycle perspective’, Fiscal Studies, 1991, vol. 12, No. 3, 16–29. (with Richard Blundell and Ian Preston)
'General healthcare preferences for people aged 50 and over in England', 2026, forthcoming in PLOS: One, (with Steel, N., O.Otu Enwo and P. Zaninotto)
‘Inequality in mortality between Black and White Americans by age, place, and cause in comparison to Europe, 1900 to 2018', 2021 (with Schwandt, H., Currie, J., and 24 others), PNAS,118, 40, e2104684118.
‘Age specific trends in mortality disparities by socio-economic deprivation in small geographical areas of England in 2002-2018: a retrospective registry study’, 2021, Lancet Regional Health Europe, 00 (2021) 100136, with (Lucy Kraftman and Pia Hardelid)
‘Are Cities Good for your Health? The case of China’, International Journal of Epidemiology, 2019, 48(4), 1083-1090 (joint with Bo Hou, James Nazroo and Alan Marshall)
‘Impacts of Migration on Health and Well-being in Later Life in China: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study’, Health and Place, Vol. 58, July 2019, (joint with Bo Hou, James Nazroo and Alan Marshall)
‘Migration Status and Smoking Behaviors in Later-life in China – Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study’, 2018, Frontiers in Public Health (Public Health Education and Promotion), joint with Bo Hou, James Nazroo and Alan Marshall
‘What They Say and What They Do: Comparing physical activity across U.S., England, and the Netherlands’, 2018, in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 72, 6, (with Kapteyn, A., Hamer, M., Smith, J. P., Steptoe, A., van Soest, A., Koster, A. & Htay Wah, S.)
‘Policies and strategies to facilitate secondary use of research data in the health sciences’, 2017, in International Journal of Epidemiology, 46(5), (with Paul Burton, Natalie Banner, Mark Elliot, and Bartha Knoppers)
'Money, Well-Being, and Loss Aversion: Does an Income Loss Have a Greater Effect on Well-Being than an Equivalent Income Gain?', Psychological Science, 24, no.12 (2013), 2557-2562 (with Christopher Boyce, Alex Wood, Andrew Clark and Gordon Brown)
"Cohort profile: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing." International Journal of Epidemiology, 2012, with Andrew Steptoe, Elizabeth Breeze and James Nazroo
‘Loneliness, social isolation and behavioral and biological health indicators in older adults', Health Psychology, 2011, Vol 30(4), July, 377-385 (Online First: May 2011), DOI:10.1037/a0022826 (with Aparna Shankar, Andrew Steptoe and Anne McMunn)
‘Attrition and health in ageing studies: evidence from ELSA and HRS’, Longitudinal and Life-course Studies, 2011, Vol 2, No. 2, 101-126 (with Alistair Muriel and Alastair Muriel, James P Smith)
‘What explains the American disadvantage in health compared to the English? The case of Diabetes’, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2010, (with Meena Kumari, James P Smith and Paola Zaninotto)
‘Disease Prevalence, Disease Incidence and Mortality in the United States and in England’, Demography, 2010, Supplement, S211-231, (with Alastair Muriel and James P Smith)
‘Health disadvantage in US adults aged 50-74: Are poor Europeans healthier than wealthy Americans?’, in American Journal of Public Health, 99(3):540-548, 2009 (with Mauricio Avendano, Johan Mackenback and Maria Glymour)
‘Disease and disadvantage in the United States and in England, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 295, No. 17, pp. 2037-2045 May 2006, (with Michael Marmot, Zoë Oldfield and James Smith)
‘Patterns in household giving: evidence from household data’, Voluntas, 1999, 10 (2), 55--66, (with Sarah Tanner)
'Tax and charitable donations - uncertain lessons from America', 1998, NGO Finance, Vol 8, No. 9, December. (with Sarah Tanner)
‘Putting TESSA in the dock’, New Economy, December 1996, 245–250.
Challenging Inequalities: How we got stuck and where we go next, 2026, Princeton University Press (with Paul Johnson, Tim Besley, Richard Blundell, Angus Deaton, Robert Joyce and Debora Satz)
The Dynamics of Ageing: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing 2002-2019, 2020, London: Institute for Fiscal Studies (co-edited with James Nazroo, Andrew Steptoe and Paola Zaninotto)
The Dynamics of Ageing: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing 2002-2016, 2018, London: Institute for Fiscal Studies (co-edited with David Batty, Anni Oskala, James Nazroo and Andrew Steptoe)
The Dynamics of Ageing: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing 2002-2014, 2016, London: Institute for Fiscal Studies (co-edited with David Batty, James Nazroo and Andrew Steptoe)
The Dynamics of Ageing: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing 2002-2012, 2014, London: Institute for Fiscal Studies (co-edited with James Nazroo and Andrew Steptoe)
The Dynamics of Ageing: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing 2002-2010, 2012, London: Institute for Fiscal Studies (co-edited with James Nazroo and Andrew Steptoe)
Financial circumstances, health and well-being of the older population in England: The 2008 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, London: Institute for Fiscal Studies, September 2010, 409 pp. (co-edited with Carli Lessof, James Nazroo, Nina Rogers, Mai Stafford and Andrew Steptoe)
Living in the 21st Century: Older People in England: The 2006 English Longitudinal Study Of Ageing, London: Institute for Fiscal Studies, July 2008, 303 pp. (co-edited with Elizabeth Breeze, Carli Lessof and James Nazroo)
Retirement, health and relationships of the older population in England: The 2004 English Longitudinal Study Of Ageing (Wave 2), 2006, London: Institute for Fiscal Studies, 383 pp. (co-edited with Elizabeth Breeze, Carli Lessof and James Nazroo)
Prepared for Retirement? The adequacy and distribution of retirement resources in England, 2005, London: Institute for Fiscal Studies (with Carl Emmerson, Zoë Oldfield and Gemma Tetlow)
Health, Wealth and lifestyles of the older population in England: The 2002 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, 2003, London: Institute for Fiscal Studies, 382 pages. (edited volume, with Michael Marmot, Richard Blundell, Carli Lessof and James Nazroo)
Taxing Charitable Giving, 1998, London: Institute for Fiscal Studies (with Sarah Tanner)
‘Household Saving in the UK, 1999, London: Institute for Fiscal Studies (with Sarah Tanner)
How Reliable is the Family Expenditure Survey? Trends in income and spending over time, 1997, London: Institute for Fiscal Studies. (edited volume, with Paul Johnson)
The State of Donation: Household Gifts to Charity: 1974-1996, 1997, London: Institute for Fiscal Studies. (with Sarah Tanner)
Taxing Household Saving: What role for the Individual Savings Account?, 1997, London: Institute for Fiscal Studies. (with Andrew Dilnot and Sarah Tanner)
The distribution of wealth in the UK, London: Institute for Fiscal Studies, 1994. (with Andrew Dilnot and Hamish Low)
Children and Household Living Standards, London: London: Institute for Fiscal Studies, 1993. (with Paul Johnson)
‘The costs of long-term care for those with cognitive impairments in England’, forthcoming in McGarry (ed), Long Term Care Around The World, Vol.2, NBER: Chicago University Press (with Eric French and Jeremy McCauley)
‘Are Longer Working Lives a Response to Changing Financial incentives? Exploiting Micro Panel Data from the UK’, 2023, forthcoming in Börsch-Supan and Coile (eds) Social Security Programs and Retirement around the world, NBER Chicago University Press (with Carl Emmerson and David Sturrock)
‘Long Term Care in England’, 2023, in Gruber and McGarry (eds) Long Term Care Around The World, NBER: Chicago University Press, DOI: 10.3386/w31826, 2023 (with Eric French and Jeremy McCauley)
‘Mental health and the Covid-19 Pandemic’, 2021, in World Happiness Report, (eds. John Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara Aknin, Shun Wang), Chapter 5. pp. 108-128 (with Daisy Fancourt and Xiaowei Xu)
‘A lifetime of changes: State pensions and the work incentives at older ages in the UK, 1948-2018’, NBER Working Paper No.25261, forthcoming in Coile and Boersch-Supan (eds) Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World, University of Chicago Press (with Carl Emmerson)
‘Long run trends in the economic activity of older people in the UK’, 2018, NBER Working paper no. 24606, forthcoming in Coile, Milligan and Wise (eds), Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Working Longer, University of Chicago Press (with Carl Emmerson and Gemma Tetlow)
‘House price volatility and the Housing Ladder’, 2017, in D. Wise (ed), Investigations in the Economics of Ageing,University of Chicago Press, (with Richard Blundell, James P Smith and Zoë Oldfield)
‘Employment and labour market transitions at older ages in England’, in J. Banks, D. Batty, J. Nazroo and A. Steptoe (eds), The Dynamics of Ageing: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing 2002-15, London: IFS
‘Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages: Evidence from the United Kingdom’ forthcoming in Wise (ed.), Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: The Capacity to Work at Older Ages, 2016. (with Gemma Tetlow and Carl Emmerson)
‘Retirement and Health’, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, ed. James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), 598-601. Oxford: Elsevier, 2015. (with Tarani Chandola and Katey Matthews)
‘Effect of Pensions and Disability Benefits on Retirement in the UK’, NBER Working Paper 19907, 2014, in Wise (ed.), Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Disability Insurance Programs and Retirement, (with Gemma Tetlow and Carl Emmerson)
‘Spousal health effects: The role of selection’, In Discoveries in the Economics of Aging, ed. D. Wise and R. Woodbury, 255-279.Chicago University Press, 2014. (with Elaine Kelly and James P Smith)
"Childhood health and differences in late-life health outcomes between England and the United States." In Investigations in the Economics of Aging, ed. D. Wise, 321-339.University of Chicago Press, 2012, with Zoë Oldfield and James P Smith
"Disability, Health and Retirement in the United Kingdom." In Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World, ed. D. Wise, 41-77.Chicago University Press, 2012, with Richard Blundell, Antoine Bozio and Carl Emmerson.
‘Do cross-country variations in social integration and social interactions explain differences in life-expectancy in industrialized countries?’, in S. Preston, E. Crimmins and B. Cohen (eds), International Differences in Mortality at Older Ages: Dimensions and Sources, 2011, Washington: National Academies Press, 219-267, (with Lisa Berkman, James P Smith, Mauricio Avendano and Maria Glymour)
‘The Base for Direct Taxation’, in James Mirrlees et al (eds), Dimensions of Tax Design: The Mirrlees Review, Oxford University Press, 2009, 548-648, (with Peter Diamond)
‘Releasing jobs for the young? Early Retirement and Youth Unemployment in the United Kingdom’, in J. Gruber and D. Wise, Social Security and Retirement Programs around the World: The Relationship to Youth Employment , Chicago University Press, 2009, pp. 319-344, ISBN: 0-226-30948-7 (with Richard Blundell, Antoine Bozio and Carl Emmerson)
‘The SES-Health Gradient on both sides of the Atlantic’, in D. Wise (ed), Developments in the Economics of Ageing, Chicago University Press, 2009, pp.359-406 (with Michael Marmot, Zoë Oldfield and James Smith)
‘Work disability is a pain in the ****, especially in England, The Netherlands, and the United States’, in D. Cutler and D. Wise (eds), Health in Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability Among the Elderly, Chicago University Press, 2008, pp. 251-294, (with Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, and Arthur van Soest)
‘Comment on: Mortality, income, and income inequality over time in Britain and the United States by Angus Deaton and Christina Paxson’, in D. Wise (ed.) Perspectives in the Economics of Ageing, Chicago University Press. 2003
‘Public and Private Pension Spending: Principles, Practice and the need for reform’, in Miles, D., G. Myles and I. Preston (eds), The Economics of Public Spending, Oxford University Press, 2003, (with Carl Emmerson)
‘Pensions and life-cycle savings profiles in the UK’, in A. Boersch-Supan (ed) Life-cycle savings and public policy: a cross-national study of six countries, Academic Press, 2003, (with Susann Rohwedder)
‘Stockholding in the United Kingdom’, in L.Guiso, M. Halliassos and T. Jappelli (eds), Stockholding in Europe, Palgrave, 2003 (with Matthew Wakefield)
‘Understanding the generosity of government support to households with children’, in J. Bradshaw (ed). Children and Social Security, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2003 (with Mike Brewer)
‘Socio-economic position’, in Marmot et al (eds.), Health, Wealth and lifestyles of the older population in England: The 2002 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, 2003, London: IFS, 2003. (with Saffron Karlsen and Zoe Oldfield)
‘Work and Retirement’ in Marmot et al (eds.), Health, Wealth and lifestyles of the older population in England: The 2002 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, 2003, London: IFS, 2003. (with Maria Casanova)
‘Household portfolios in the UK’, in L. Guiso, M. Halliassos and T. Jappelli. (eds) Household Portfolios, MIT Press, 2001. (with Sarah Tanner)
‘Tax reform and welfare measurement: Do we need demand system estimation?’, in J. Creedy (ed.) Economic Welfare: Concepts and Measurement, pp 241–255, Edward Elgar, 1999. (with Richard Blundell and Arthur Lewbel)
‘Tax relief for charitable donations; an economic analysis’, in C. Pharoah and M. Smerden (eds.), Dimensions of the voluntary sector, 1998, CAF: London. (with Sarah Tanner)
‘Trends and patterns in charitable giving: evidence for the UK 1974-1994’, 1997, in Second Annual Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference Proceedings, NCVO. (with Sarah Tanner)
‘Patterns of financial wealth holding in the UK’, in New Inequalities: An inquiry into the link between income and wealth ed. J.Hills, 1995, Cambridge University Press. (with Andrew Dilnot and Hamish Low)
‘Measuring the life-cycle consumption costs of children’, in The Measurement of Household Welfare, ed. R. Blundell, I. Preston and I. Walker, 1994, Cambridge University Press. (with Richard Blundell and Ian Preston)
‘Taxation and savings incentives in the UK’, in Household Saving and Public Policy, ed. J. Poterba, University of Chicago Press, 1994. (with Richard Blundell)