Cone visual pigments of monotremes: Filling the phylogenetic gap (2008)
Wakefield, Matthew, Anderson, Mark, Chang, Ellen, Wei, Ke-Jun, Kaul, Rajinder, Marshall-Graves, Jennifer Mary, ...
Copyright © 2008 Cambridge University Press
Cone visual pigments of monotremes: Filling the phylogenetic gap (2008)
Wakefield, Matthew, Anderson, Mark, Chang, Ellen, Wei, Ke-Jun, Kaul, Rajinder, Marshall-Graves, Jennifer Mary, ...
Copyright © 2008 Cambridge University Press
El-Mogharbel, Nisrine, Wakefield, Matthew, Deakin, Janine E., Tsend-Ayush, Enkhjargal, Grutzner, Frank, Alsop, Amber E., ...
We isolated and characterized a cluster of platypus DMRT genes and compared their arrangement, location, and sequence across vertebrates. The DMRT gene cluster on human 9p24.3 harbors, in order,...
El-Mogharbel, Nisrine, Wakefield, Matthew, Deakin, Janine E., Tsend-Ayush, Enkhjargal, Grutzner, Frank, Alsop, Amber E., ...
We isolated and characterized a cluster of platypus DMRT genes and compared their arrangement, location, and sequence across vertebrates. The DMRT gene cluster on human 9p24.3 harbors, in order,...
Attanasio, Orazio P., Banks, James, Wakefield, Matthew
Partout dans le monde se pose la question des mesures à prendre pour assurer un niveau suffisant d¿épargne retraite des ménages. Les États-Unis et le Royaume-Uni ont été à l¿avant-garde des...
Orazio Attanasio, James Banks, Matthew Wakefield
The adequacy of household saving for retirement has become a policy issue all around the world. The UK and US have been in the vanguard of those countries that have tried to encourage retirement...
Explaining Life-Cycle Profiles of Home-Ownership and Labour Supply
Renata Bottazzi, Orazio Attanasio, Hamish Low, Lars Nesheim, Matthew Wakefield
In this paper we show the extent that home ownership varies over the life-cycle and differs by cohort and by education. We explain these differences in a calibrated model of life-cycle behaviour...
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...
Social security in the UK under New Labour: what did the Third Way mean for welfare reform?
Mike Brewer, Tom Clark, Matthew Wakefield
In 1997, the Labour Party was elected in the UK with few explicitly articulated ideas about social security reforms. This paper reviews the large number of subsequent reforms to social security, and...
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...
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...
The distribution of financial wealth in the UK: evidence from 2000 BHPS data
James Banks, Zoë Oldfield, Matthew Wakefield
This paper examines evidence from the British Household Panel Study on the distribution of financial wealth amongst benefit units in 2000. It also provides some analysis of the links between...
Five years of social security reforms in the UK
Mike Brewer, Tom Clark, Matthew Wakefield
The current Labour Government was elected in 1997 with few specific social security proposals. This paper argues that after five years, consistent trends in social security policy have emerged: there...
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...
Why do home owners work longer hours?
Renata Bottazzi, Hamish Low, Matthew Wakefield
This paper uses a structural model to address the question of why home-owners with large mortgage debt work longer hours than those without such debt. We consider whether this is due to lower net...
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...
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...
The economics of a temporary VAT cut
Thomas Crossley, Hamish Low, Matthew Wakefield
1. The rate of VAT has been cut temporarily to 15%, with a return to 17.5% in place for the end of 2009. The government has predicted that this will increase consumer spending by about 0.5%. Much of...