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CASE Paper
Benefit ‘myths’? The accuracy and inaccuracy of public beliefs about the benefits system
Ben Baumberg Geiger
October 2016
Paper No' CASE/199:
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Tags: benefits; social security; public attitudes; myths
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CASE Paper
Pareto and the upper tail of the income distribution in the UK: 1799 to the present
A.B. Atkinson
October 2016
Paper No' CASE/198:
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Tags: pareto; income; distribution; tail
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Econometrics Paper
Local M-estimation with discontinuous criterion for dependent and limited observations
Myung Hwan Seo and Taisuke Otsu
October 2016
Paper No' EM/589:
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Tags: cube root asymptotics; maximal inequality; mixing process; partial identification; parameter-dependent localization
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Econometrics Paper
Likelihood inference on semiparametric models with generated regressors
Yukitoshi Matsushita and Taisuke Otsu
September 2016
Paper No' EM 587:
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Tags: generated regressor; empirical likelihood
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Public Economics Programme Discussion Paper
Pareto models, top incomes, and recent trends in UK income inequality
Stephen P Jenkins
August 2016
Paper No' PEP 30:
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Tags: inequality; top incomes; pareto distribution; generalized pareto distribution; survey under-coverage; hbai; spi
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Public Economics Programme Discussion Paper
Choice and Competition in Public Service Provision
Timothy Besley and James M. Malcolmson
August 2016
Paper No' PEP 29:
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Tags: choice; competition; public service; not-for-profit
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Public Economics Programme Discussion Paper
Aspirations and the Political Economy of Inequality
Timothy Besley
August 2016
Paper No' PEP 28:
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Econometrics Paper
Specification testing for errors-in-variables models
Taisuke Otsu and Luke Taylor
August 2016
Paper No' EM/2015/586:
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Tags: specification test; measurement errors; deconvolution
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Development Discussion Paper
Media, Demonstrations, and Public Good Delivery: Evidence from World Bank Projects during Natural Disasters
Nicola Limodio August 2016
Paper No' EOPP 62:
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Tags: disaster aid; government policy; media; natural disasters
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Development Discussion Paper
Manager Assignment and Project Returns: Evidence from the World Bank
Nicola Limodio
August 2016
Paper No' EOPP 61:
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Tags: development lending; personnel economics; international organizations; cost-benefit analysis

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