West, Anne, Emmerson, Carl, Frayne, Christine, Hind, Audrey
Notwithstanding the expansion of higher education across the OECD, there continues to be concern about the levels of participation amongst those from disadvantaged backgrounds. In response to this, a...
Education subsidies and school drop-out rates (2006)
Dearden, Lorraine, Emmerson, Carl, Frayne, Christine, Meghir, Costas
Education subsidies and school drop-out rates (2006)
Dearden, Lorraine, Emmerson, Carl, Frayne, Christine, Meghir, Costas
Evaluation of Education Allowance Pilots: young people aged 16 to 19 years (2005)
Middleton, Sue, Perren, Kim, Maguire, Sue, Rennison, Joanne, Battistin, Erich, Emmerson, Carl, ...
This report is also available online at: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RR678.pdf
Evaluation of Education Allowance Pilots: young people aged 16 to 19 years (2005)
Middleton, Sue, Perren, Kim, Maguire, Sue, Rennison, Joanne, Battistin, Erich, Emmerson, Carl, ...
This report is also available online at: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RR678.pdf
Perren, Kim, Middleton, Sue, Emmerson, Carl
This report is also available online at: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RR471.pdf
Perren, Kim, Middleton, Sue, Emmerson, Carl
This report is also available online at: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RR471.pdf
Education Maintenance Allowance : the first two years : a quantitative evaluation (2002)
Ashworth, Karl, Hardman, Jay, Hartfree, Yvette, Maguire, Sue, Middleton, Sue, Smith, Debbi, ...
This report is also available online at: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RR352.pdf
Education Maintenance Allowance : the first two years : a quantitative evaluation (2002)
Ashworth, Karl, Hardman, Jay, Hartfree, Yvette, Maguire, Sue, Middleton, Sue, Smith, Debbi, ...
This report is also available online at: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RR352.pdf
Preliminary and incomplete – Incomplete referencing (2002)
Lorraine Dearden, Carl Emmerson, Christine Frayne, Costas Meghir
Handout prepared for CEE conference
Education Maintenance Allowance : the first year : a quantitative evaluation (2001)
Ashworth, Karl, Hardman, Jay, Liu, Woon-Chia, Maguire, Sue, Middleton, Sue, Dearden, Lorraine, ...
This report is also available online at: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RR257.pdf
Education Maintenance Allowance : the first year : a quantitative evaluation (2001)
Ashworth, Karl, Hardman, Jay, Liu, Woon-Chia, Maguire, Sue, Middleton, Sue, Dearden, Lorraine, ...
This report is also available online at: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RR257.pdf
An examination of the IFS corporation tax forecasting record
Suman Basu, Carl Emmerson, Christine Frayne
This paper examines the corporation tax forecasting techniques used by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. For current year forecasts a judgemental forecast is found to have performed better than...
The impact of expenditure limitations on local government spending: evidence from the United Kingdom
James Banks, Carl Emmerson, Zoë Oldfield
This paper provides a detailed analysis of individuals in households in England aged between 50 and the State Pension Age in terms of their private pension arrangements and current non-pension assets...
Fiscal effects of reforming the UK state pension system
Richard Blundell, Carl Emmerson
The fiscal and distributive impacts of three reforms to the social security pension system in the UK are evaluated. All three reforms are designed to increase the retirement age by changing the...
Mortality, Health Status, and Wealth
Orazio P. Attanasio, Carl Emmerson
In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/1989 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socioeconomic status and health outcomes. We find that, even after...
The Balance Between Defined Benefit, Defined Contribution, and State Provision
James Banks, Richard Blundell, Carl Emmerson
We examine the possible consequences of the increasing shift from Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution arrangements for private pensions. Whilst much analysis has focused on the possible...
Education Subsidies and School Drop-Out Rates
Lorraine Dearden, Carl Emmerson, Christine Frayne, Costas Meghir, Costas Meghir
Education, School
Pension Provision and Retirement Saving: Lessons from the United Kingdom
Richard Disney, Carl Emmerson, Matthew Wakefield
We describe the trajectory of pension reform in the United Kingdom, which has focussed on keeping the cost of public pension programmes down during a period of steady population ageing whilst...
Privatising provision and attacking poverty? The direction of UK Pension Policy under new Labour
This paper analyses the thrust of the UK Government s pension reforms in the context of the system they inherited. The reforms represent continuity with what went before in seeking to continue the...
Unlike many tax and benefit changes, reforms to public pension programmes take many years to have their full effect. This paper examines the effect of reforms to the public pension programme in the...
A note on the tax treatment of private pensions and Individual Savings Accounts
The UK government is planning to introduce stakeholder pensions from April 2001 as an alternative to existing personal pensions for people on moderate earnings. But stakeholder pensions are only one...
State pensions and the well-being of the elderly in the UK
James Banks, Richard Blundell, Carl Emmerson, Zoë Oldfield
This paper presents the trends seen over the last quarter of the 20th Century in various indicators of the well-being of the elderly alongside those seen for the young. Specifically we look at...
Richard Blundell, Carl Emmerson, Matthew Wakefield
We summarise what economic theory predicts about how retirement savings decisions are affected by marginal withdrawal rates created by the tax, tax credit and benefit system, and by the information...
Estimating pension wealth of ELSA respondents
James Banks, Carl Emmerson, Gemma Tetlow
This paper explains the methodology used for calculating pension wealth for all individuals in the first wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). We focus on the pension wealth of...
Carl Emmerson, Howard Reed, Andrew Shephard
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)’s Pensim2 model is a dynamic microsimulation model. The principal purpose of this model is to estimate the future distribution of pensioner incomes, thus...
Ill health and retirement in Britain: a panel data based analysis
Richard Disney, Carl Emmerson, Matthew Wakefield
We examine the role of ill-health in retirement decisions in Britain, using the first eight waves of the British Household Panel Survey (1991-98). As self-reported health status is likely to be...
Choice of pension scheme and job mobility in Britain
This paper examines the choice of pension scheme and job mobility in Britain. Workers in Britain can choose to belong wholly to the social security (public pension) programme, or to a...
Differential mortality in the UK
Orazio Attanasio, Carl Emmerson
In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/89 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socio-economic status and health outcomes. We find that, even after...
Education subsidies and school drop-out rates
Lorraine Dearden, Carl Emmerson, Christine Frayne, Costas Meghir
This paper evaluates whether means-tested grants paid to secondary students are an effective way of reducing the proportion of school dropouts. We look at this problem using matching techniques on a...
Updating the UK's code for fiscal stability
Carl Emmerson, Christine Frayne, Sarah Love
The 1998 Code for Fiscal Stability sets out the framework within which UK fiscal policy is now set. While having such a code does not make it easier for a Government to meet its fiscal objectives, it...
Richard Disney, Carl Emmerson, Matthew Wakefield
Faced with ageing populations, OECD governments are seeking policies to increase individual retirement saving. In April 2001, the UK government introduced Stakeholder Pensions - a low cost retirement...
What is a public sector pension worth?
Richard Disney, Carl Emmerson, Gemma Tetlow
We measure accruals in defined benefit (DB) pension plans for public and private sector workers in Britain, using typical differences in scheme rules and sector-specific lifetime age-earnings...
Better prepared for retirement? Using panel data to improve wealth estimates of ELSA respondents
James Banks, Carl Emmerson, Gemma Tetlow
We compare the key assumptions underpinning estimates of the pension wealth of ELSA respondents to outcomes over the period from 2002-03 to 2004-05. We find that many of these assumptions have, on...
Increasing support for those on lower incomes: is the Saving Gateway the best policy response?
Carl Emmerson, Matthew Wakefield
The government is committed to introducing a new savings account for people on lower incomes. This will provide a strong incentive for eligible individuals to save, or at least to hold financial...
Public and private pension spending: principles, practice and the need for reform
This paper surveys the issue of public spending on pensions. Drawing on evidence from systems around the world, but particularly in Britain, we outline the arguments for different types of public and...
Differential Mortality in the UK
Orazio P. Attanasio, Carl Emmerson
In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/89 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socio-economic status and health outcomes. We find that, even after...
Pension Reform and Economic Performance in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s
Richard Disney, Carl Emmerson, Sarah Smith
The late 1980s saw a major shift in pension provision in the United Kingdom, when for the first time individuals were permitted to opt out of part of the social security program into individual...
Pension Provision and Retirement Saving: Lessons from the United Kingdom
Richard Disney, Carl Emmerson, Matthew Wakefield
We describe the trajectory of pension reform in the United Kingdom, which focuses on restraining the cost of the public program as the population ages while maintaining adequate income security for...
What is a Public Sector Pension Worth?
Richard Disney, Carl Emmerson, Gemma Tetlow
We measure accruals in defined benefit (DB) pension plans for public and private sector workers in Britain, using typical differences in scheme rules and sector-specific lifetime age-wage profiles by...