We find that women have lower emissions propensities than men, and therefore greater female empowerment is associated with ...

I show that the adoption and extent of focal pricing practices in an industry in general do not lower average pass-through of ...

Public sector pension rules are a mess that helps neither workers nor the government. Fixing them could be a win-win.

Public finance data out today show that borrowing overshot the official forecast made at last month's Spring Statement by £15 ...

Not for the first time we are facing a nasty economic shock. At such times it can be useful to learn from the past; and now is an especially auspicious moment to look back at one particular moment in ...

In this paper, we estimate average equivalised consumption measures across local authority districts in Great Britain. We use small-area estimation methods that combine information from a household ...

Living standards across areas can be measured in many ways. Common approaches are to look at differences in local productivity (which reflect differences in the earnings of those working, but not ...

If you measure living standards by looking at how much people spend on goods and services (excluding housing-related expenditures and adjusting for household size) you get a starkly different picture ...

Londoners may have the highest average incomes, but their household spending once you account for housing costs is lower than other regions.

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