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The Effects of Differences in Housing and Health Care Systems on International Comparions of Income Distribution

Jane Falkingham, Karen Gardiner, John Hills, Valérie Lechêne and Holly Sutherland

A Survey of Income Inequality Over the Last Twenty Years: How Does the UK Compare?

Karen Gardiner

January

The Economic Determinants of Truancy

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner and Carol Propper

Truancy is often seen as irrational behaviour on the part of school age youth. This paper takes the opposite view and models truancy as the solution to a time allocation problem in which youths derive current returns fro...Read more...

September 2002

CASEpaper

Growing Up: School, family and area influences on adolescents' later life chances

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner and Carol Propper

This paper explores the links between school, family and area background influences during adolescence and later adult economic outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on data covering the period 1979 to 1996, drawn fr...Read more...

September 2001

CASEpaper

Why rising tides don't lift all boats? An explanation of the relationship between poverty and unemployment in Britain

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner and Carol Propper

Abstract: This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship between aggregate poverty and unemployment in Great Britain. We derive a framework based on individuals' risks of unemployment and poverty, and ho...Read more...

February 2001

CASEpaper

Measuring Income Risk

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner, Stephen P Jenkins and Carol Propper

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contr...Read more...

June 2000

WSP Discussion Paper

Comparing Poverty in France and theUnited Kingdom (in The Distribution of Welfare and Household Production, S Jenkins, A Kapteyn and B van Praag (eds.) (1996), Cambridge University Press)

Anthony B. Atkinson, Karen Gardiner, Valérie Lechêne and Holly Sutherland

January 1996

WSP Discussion Paper

Putting a Price on Council Housing: ValuingVoluntary Transfers (edited version in Fiscal Studies, 13(1), 1992)

Karen Gardiner, John Hills, Mark Kleinman and Sandra McNally

January 1992