Publications

Published Journal Articles

• 'Extending choice in the English health care system' (with S Burgess and D Wilson) forthcoming in Journal of Social Policy
• Local Neighbourhood and Mental Health: Evidence from the UK (with Anne Bolster, Simon Burgess, Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones and Rebecca Sarker), forthcoming in Social Science and Medicine
• 'Access to Health Care Resources in the UK: The Case of Care for Arthritis' (with J Eachus, P Chan, N Pearson and G Davey Smith) Health Economics vol 14, pp 391-406 (2005)
• 'The Effects of Early Maternal Employment on Child Development in the UK' (with S Burgess, E Washbrook and P Gregg) Economic Journal vol 115, F48-80, (February 2005)
• 'Mapping Choice in the NHS using Routine Data' (with M Damiani and J Dixon) British Medical Journal vol 330, 284 (February 2005)
• 'Girls Rock, Boys Roll: An Analysis of the Age 14-16 Gender Gap in English Schools' (with S Burgess B McConnell and D Wilson) Scottish Journal of Political Economy vol 51(2), 209-229 (2004)
• 'Does competition between hospitals improve the quality of care? Hospital death rates and the NHS Internal Market' (with S Burgess amd K Green) Journal of Public Economics vol 88(7-8), 1247-1272 (July 2004)
• 'Socioeconomic inequalities in diabetes complications, control, attitudes and health service use: a cross-section study' (with M Bachmann, J Eachus, CD Hopper, G Davey Smith, Stephen Frankel DM, N Pearson, S Williams, D Tallon MsC) Diabetic Medicine vol 20(11), 921-929 (Nov 2003)
• 'The Role of Income in Marriage and Divorce Transitions among Young Americans' (with A Aassve and S Burgess) Journal of Population Economics vol 16(3), 455-475 (August 2003)
• 'The Use and Usefulness of Performance Measures' (with D Wilson) Oxford Review of Economic Policy 19 (2), 250-267 (2003)
• 'The class of '81: The effects of early-career unemployment on subsequent unemployment experiences' (with S Burgess, H Rees and A Shearer), Labour Economics 10(3), 291-311 (2003)
• 'Transitions to marriage of young Americans' (with A Aassve, S Burgess, A Chesher), Journal of Applied Econometrics 17(1), 1-23 (2002)
• 'Waiting times for hospital admissions: the impact of GP fundholding' (with B Croxson and A Shearer) Journal of Health Economics 21(2), 227-252 (2002)
• 'A larger role for the private sector in financing UK health care: The arguments and the evidence' (with Katherine Green) Journal of Social Policy 30(4), 685-704 (2001)
• 'Expenditure on health care in the UK: A review', Fiscal Studies 22(2), 151-184 (2001)
• 'The demand for private insurance in the UK: A cohort analysis' (with Hedley Rees and Katherine Green) Economic Journal 111(471) C180-C200 (2001)
• 'Do doctors respond to financial incentives: UK family doctors and the GP Fundholder Scheme' (with B Croxson and A Perkins), Journal of Public Economics 79(2), 375-398 (2001)
• 'The demand for private health care in the UK' Journal of Health Economics 19(6), 855-876 (2000)
• 'Equity in the delivery of health care in Europe and the US' (with E van Doorslaer et al) Journal of Health Economics 19(5), 553-584
• 'Does the UK have a private welfare class?' (with Tandia Burchardt) Journal of Social Policy 28(4), 643-665 (1999)
• 'Redistributive effect, progressivity and differential tax treatment: Personal income taxes in 12 OECD countries' (with A Wagstaff et al) Journal of Public Economics 72(1), 73-98 (1999)
• 'The redistributive effect of health care finance in twelve OECD countries' (with A Wagstaff et al) Journal of Health Economics (18), 291-314 (1999)
• 'Equity in the finance of health care: some further international comparisons' (with A Wagstaff et al) Journal of Health Economics (18), 263-290 (1999)
• 'An additional dimension to health inequalities: disease severity and socio-economic position' (with J Eachus, P Chan, N Pearson and G Davey-Smith) Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 53, 603-611 (1999)

Recent Book Chapters

• 'The impact of school choice on sorting by ability and socio-economic factors in English secondary education' (with S Burgess, B McConnell and C Propper) , forthcoming in: P Peterson and L Woessman (eds), Schools and the equal opportunity problem, MIT Press
• 'The use of performance measures in health care systems' (with C Propper), forthcoming (2006) in: A Jones (ed), The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Edward Elgar
• 'Waiting lists' (with J Cullis and P Jones) Handbook of Health Economics (eds.) A Culyer and J Newhouse, North Holland (2000)

Recent Working Papers

• Smarter Task Assignment or Greater Effort: the impact of incentives on team performance (PDF, 221kB) (with Simon Burgess, Marisa Ratto, Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder and Emma Tominey), CMPO Working Paper 09/215
• Incentives and Targets in Hospital Care: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (with Matt Sutton, Carolyn Whitnall and Frank Windmeijer), CMPO Working Paper 08/205
• Keeping Up With The Schmidts: An Empirical Test of Relative Deprivation Theory in the Neighbourhood Context (with Simon Burgess and Gundi Knies), CMPO Working Paper 07/173
• The Formation of School Peer Groups: Pupils' Transition from Primary to Secondary School in England (with Simon Burgess, Ron Johnston, Tomas Key, and Deborah Wilson), CMPO Working Paper 07/172
• Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health. Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient (with David W. Johnston, Carol Propper and Michael A. Shields), CMPO Working Paper 07/171
• Distance Travelled in the NHS in England for Inpatient Treatment (with Michael Damiani, George Leckie and Jennifer Dixon), CMPO Working Paper 06/162
• The Impact of Neighbourhood on the Income and Mental Health of British Social Renters (with Simon Burgess, Anne Bolster, George Leckie, Kelvyn Jones and Ron Johnston), CMPO Working Paper 06/161
• Modelling Poverty by not Modelling Poverty: An Application of a Simultaneous Hazards Approach to the UK (with Arnstein Aassve, Matt Dickson and Carol Propper), CMPO Working Paper 05/134
• Extending Choice in English Health Care: The Implications of the Economic Evidence (with Simon Burgess and Deborah Wilson), CMPO Working Paper 05/133 (2005) forthcoming in Journal of Social Policy
• Who wins and who loses from school accountability? The distribution of educational gain in English secondary schools (with Simon Burgess, Helen Slater and Deborah Wilson), CMPO Working Paper 05/128 (2005)
• Health Supplier Quality and the Distribution of Child Health (with John Rigg, Simon Burgess and the ALSPAC Study Team), CMPO Working Paper 05/123 (2005)
• Why Economics is Good for Your Health - 2004 Royal Economic Society Public Lecture, CMPO Working Paper 05/116 (2004) forthcoming in Health Economics
• Evaluating the Impact of Performance-related Pay for Teachers in England (with Adele Atkinson, Bronwyn Croxson, Paul Gregg, Carol Propper, Helen Slater and Deborah Wilson), CMPO Working Paper 04/113 (2004)
• Sorting and Choice in English Secondary Schools (with Simon Burgess, Brendon McConnell and Deborah Wilson), CMPO Working Paper 04/111 (2004)
• Neighbourhoods, Households and Income Dynamics: A Semi-Parametric Investigation of Neighbourhood Effects (with Anne Bolster, Simon Burgess, Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones, and Rebecca Sarker), CMPO Working Paper 04/106 (2004)
• 'Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency' (with Simon Burgess, Marisa Ratto and Emma Tominey), CMPO Working Paper 04/103 (2004)
• Local Neighbourhood and Mental Health: Evidence from the UK (with Anne Bolster, Simon Burgess, Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones and Rebecca Sarker), CMPO Working Paper 04/099 (2004) forthcoming in Social Science and Medicine
• The Impact of Low-Income on Child Health: Evidence from a Birth Cohort Study (with Simon Burgess, John Rigg and the ALSPAC Study Team), CMPO Working Paper 04/098 (2004)
• Mapping choice in the NHS: Analysis of routine data (with Mike Damiani and Jennifer Dixon), CMPO Working Paper 04/095 (2004) published in British Medical Journal 330, (7486) 284 (2005)
• 'Explaining differences in hospital performance: Does the answer lie in the labour market?' (with Simon Burgess and Denise Gossage), CMPO Working Paper 03/091 (2003)
• 'Girls Rock, Boys Roll: An Analysis of the Age 14-16 Gender Gap in English Schools' (with Simon Burgess, Brendon McConnell, and Deborah Wilson), CMPO Working Paper 03/084 (2003)
• 'Incentives in the Public Sector: Some Preliminary Evidence from a UK Government Agency' (with Simon Burgess, Marisa Ratto and Emma Tominey), CMPO Working Paper 03/080 (2003)
• 'Competition and Quality: Evidence from the NHS Internal Market 1991 - 1999'(with S Burgess and D Gossage), CMPO Working Paper 03/077 (2003)
• 'Maternity Rights and Mother's Return to Work'(with S Burgess, P Gregg, E Washbrook and the ALSPAC Study Team), CMPO Working Paper 02/055 (2002)
• 'Does Performance Monitoring Work? A Review of the Evidence from the UK Public Sector, Excluding Health Care'(with S Burgess and D Wilson), CMPO Working Paper 02/049 (2002)
• 'Team-based Incentives in the NHS: An Economic Analysis' (with Burgess S, Croxson B, Jewitt I and Ratto M), CMPO Working Paper 01/037.
• 'The intricacies of the relationship between pay and performance for teachers: Do teachers respond to Performance Related Pay schemes?' (with S Burgess, B Croxson, and P Gregg), CMPO Working Paper 01/035 (2001)
• 'The analysis of poverty data with endogenous transitions' (with Simon Burgess and Matt Dickson), (2001)
• 'Growing up: school, family and area influences on adolescents' later life chances' (with Simon Burgess and Karen Gardiner), CASE discussion paper 49 (2001)
• 'Why rising tides don't lift all boats? An explanation of the relationship between poverty and unemployment in Britain' (with Simon Burgess and Karen Gardiner), CASE discussion paper 46 (2001)
• 'An economic model of household income dynamics, with application to poverty dynamics among American women' (with S Burgess), CASE discussion paper 09