Published Papers (Refereed)

• "Modelling the demand for housing over the lifecycle" (2011) with Orazio Attanasio, Renata Bottazzi, Lars Nesheim and Matt Wakefield, Review of Economic Dynamics, forthcoming
• "Borrowing constraints, the cost of precautionary saving, and unemployment insurance” (2011) with Thomas Crossley, International Tax and Public Finance, forthcoming. 
• "Is the elasticity of intertemporal substitution constant?" (2011) with Thomas Crossley, Journal of the European Economic Association, vol 9(1), 87-105
• "Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle" (2010) with Costas Meghir and Luigi Pistaferri, American Economic Review, 100(4): 1432–67
• "The economics of a temporary cut in VAT" (2009) with Tom Crossley and Matt Wakefield, Fiscal Studies 30(1): 3–16
• "Explaining changes in female labour supply in a life-cycle model” (2008) with Orazio Attanasio and Virginia Sanchez-Marcos, American Economic Review, 98(4):1517-1552.
• "Self-insurance in a life-cycle model of labour supply and savings” (2005) Review of Economic Dynamics 8(4): 945-975.
• "Female labour supply as insurance against idiosyncratic risk” (2005) with Orazio Attanasio and Virginia Sanchez-Marcos Journal of the European Economic Association, P&P, vol. 3 (2-3), pp. 755-764
• "Estimating Euler Equations” (2004) with Orazio Attanasio Review of Economic Dynamics, 7:406-435, Institute for Fiscal Studies Working Paper 02/06
• "Optimal taxation, prudence and risk sharing” (2004) with Dan Maldoom, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 88, Issues 3-4, Pages 443-464.
• "Noisy convention selection with local interaction,” Sociological Methods and Research, (2000) 28(3) 312-340 with Kazu Araki

Other Published Papers

• "Who wins, who loses and who gains from divorce?" with Hayley Fisher, in: Miles, J. and Probert, R. "Sharing lives, dividing assets" Hart Publishing.
• Review of Luigi Gusio, Michael Haliassos and Tullio Japelli "Household Portfolios” in: Economic Journal (2003) 113:F392-F393
• "Public Pensions” with Toke Aidt and Ann Berry (2002) in: Cambridge Essays in Applied Economics
• "Patterns of financial wealth holding in the UK,” in: New Inequalities, ed: John Hills, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1996) with J. Banks and A. Dilnot
• "The distribution of wealth in the UK,” Institute for Fiscal Studies, Commentary No. 45 (1994) with J. Banks and A. Dilnot

Working Papers

• "Do consumers gamble to convexify?" (2011) with Tom Crossley and Sarah Smith, IFS working paper
• "Disability risk, disability insurance and life-cycle behaviour" (2011) with Luigi Pistaferri, NBER Working Paper 15962
• "Do Self-Insurance and Disability Insurance Prevent Consumption Loss on Disability?" (2009) with Steffan G. Ball, Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Federal Reserve Board.
• "Decomposing changes in income risk using consumption data” (2008) with Richard Blundell and Ian Preston Institute for Fiscal Studies Working Paper 04/26
• "Why do home owners work longer hours?" (2007) with Renata Bottazzi and Matthew Wakefield, Institute for Fiscal Studies Working Papers, W07/10

Comments

• A note on the funding of higher education, prepared for the Cambridge University Student Union / Cambridge Union forum on Higher Education funding, October 2008