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Econometrics Paper

Geodesic synthetic control methods for random objects and functional data

Daisuke Kurisu, Hans-Georg Mueller, Taisuke Otsu and Yidong Zhou

We introduce a geodesic synthetic control method for causal inference that extends existing synthetic control methods to scenarios where outcomes are elements in a geodesic metric space rather than scalars. Examples of s...Read more...

1 May 2025

SPCC Working Paper

The Coalition's Record on Cash Transfers, Poverty and Inequality 2010-2015

John Hills

Presenting his 2010 spending review, George Osborne, the Chancellor, insisted that 'those with the broadest shoulders should bear the greatest burden'. How did the Coalition's benefit and direct tax policies affect the d...Read more...

26 January 2015

SPCC Working Paper

Labour's Record on Cash Transfers, Poverty, Inequality and the Lifecycle 1997 - 2010

John Hills

Cash transfers (benefits and tax credits) are crucial to the way that inequalities develop over time. This paper looks at how Labour’s aims, policies and achievements on poverty and inequality related to its reforms of a...Read more...

1 July 2013

CASEreport

An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK - Report of the National Equality Panel

John Hills

Britain is an unequal country, more so than many other industrial countries and more so than a generation ago. This is manifest in many ways - most obviously in the gap between those who are well off and those who are le...Read more...

January 2010

DARP Paper

Statistical Inference for Multidimensional Inequality Indices

Ramses H. Abul Naga

We use the delta method to derive the large sample distribution of multidimensional inequality indices. We also present a simple method for computing standard errors and obtain explicit formulas in the context of two fam...Read more...

August 2008

DARP Paper

Prediction and Sufficiency in the Model Factor Analysis

Ramses H. Abul Naga

We contrast two approaches to the prediction of latent variables in the model of factor analysis. The likelihood statistic is a sufficient statistic for the unobservables when sampling arises from the exponential family ...Read more...

November 1997

Econometrics Paper

Semiparametric Estimation of a Sample Selection Model: A Simulation Study

Marcia M Schafgans

Standard approaches to the estimation of sample selection models are known to be inconsistent under non-normality. In particular, this paper considers the two-step Heckman (1976, 1979) estimator of the interecept of the ...Read more...

March 1997

Econometrics Paper

Empirics for Economic Growth and Convergence (Now published in European Economic Review, vol.40, no.6 (1996), pp.1353-1375.)

Danny Quah

The convergence hypothesis has generated a huge empirical literature: this paper critically reviews some of the earlier key findings, clarifies their implications, and relates them to more recent results. Particular atte...Read more...

1995