Search Results - "Leicester, Andrew"

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Factors Associated with the Presence of Domestic Energy Efficiency Measures in England

by Leicester, Andrew Stoye, George Published in Fiscal studies (01.06.2017)

“...We use cross‐sectional household survey data in England between 2002–03 and 2010–11 to explore potential barriers to ownership of three common energy...”

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Anti‐Smoking Policies and Smoker Well‐Being: Evidence from Britain

by Leicester, Andrew Levell, Peter Published in Fiscal studies (01.06.2016)

“...Anti‐smoking policies can in theory make smokers better off, by helping smokers with time‐inconsistent preferences commit to giving up or reducing the amount...”

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Booms and Busts: Consumption, House Prices and Expectations

by Orazio P. Attanasio Laura Blow Robert Hamilton Andrew Leicester Published in Economica (London) (01.02.2009)

“...Over much of the past 25 years, house price and consumption growth have been closely synchronized. Three main hypotheses for this have been proposed: increases...”

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Consumer Shopping Behavior: How Much Do Consumers Save?

by Rachel Griffith Ephraim Leibtag Andrew Leicester Aviv Nevo Published in The Journal of economic perspectives (01.04.2009)

“...This paper documents the potential and actual savings that consumers realize from four particular types of purchasing behavior: purchasing on sale; buying in...”

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Using Scanner Technology to Collect Expenditure Data

by Andrew Leicester Zoë Oldfield Published in Fiscal studies (01.09.2009)

“...In terms of collecting panel expenditure data, there are trade-offs between the demands imposed on respondents and the detail and coverage of data collected...”

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Inequality and Two Decades of British Tax and Benefit Reforms

by TOM CLARK ANDREW LEICESTER Published in Fiscal studies (01.06.2004)

“...Microsimulation methods are used to identify the contribution of tax and benefit reforms to the significant growth in UK income inequality since 1979. The...”

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DO HOUSE PRICES DRIVE CONSUMPTION GROWTH? THE COINCIDENT CYCLES OF HOUSE PRICES AND CONSUMPTION IN THE UK

by Orazio Attanasio Matthew Wakefield Andrew Leicester Published in Journal of the European Economic Association (01.06.2011)

“...This paper uses a realistic structural lifecycle model of consumption and housing decisions to understand how data might distinguish different mechanisms that...”

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The Potential use of In-home Scanner Technology for Budget Surveys

by Leicester, Andrew
01.10.2013

“...This paper considers the potential role of in-home scanners as a method of data collection for national budget surveys such as the Consumer Expenditure Survey...”

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Welfare rankings from multivariate data, a nonparametric approach

by Anderson, Gordon Crawford, Ian Leicester, Andrew Published in Journal of public economics (2011)

“...Economic and social welfare is inherently multidimensional. However, choosing a measure which combines several indicators is difficult and may have unintendend...”

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Timing and Quantity of Consumer Purchases and the Consumer Price Index

by Nevo, Aviv Griffith, Rachel Leicester, Andrew Leibtag, Ephraim
01.10.2008

“...A common approach to measuring price changes is to look at the change of the expenditure needed to purchase a fixed basket of goods. It is well-known that this...”

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Environmental taxes

by Fullerton, Don Leicester, Andrew Smith, Stephen
2008

“..."This chapter provides an overview of key economic issues in the use of taxation as an instrument of environmental policy in the UK. It first reviews economic...”

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A painless bony lump in the arm of a 4 year old girl

by Leicester, AW Published in Medicine today (Neutral Bay, N.S.W.) (2009)

“...Osteochondroma is the most common benign bone tumour, which can often present as an incidental finding on an x-ray. (author abstract)...”

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The Potential Use of In-Home Scanner Technology for Budget Surveys

by Leicester, Andrew Published in Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures (16.06.2015)

“...We consider that role in-home barcode scanner data could play in national budget surveys. We make detailed comparisons of food and drink expenditures in two...”

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