Essays in the microeconometric evaluation of public policies
Chapter 1 examines the health benefits of the Winter Fuel Payment (WFP), an unconditional but labelled cash transfer given to elderly people above the female state pension age with the stated intent of help to deal with heating costs. We exploit the eligibility age cut-off to estimate the causal eff...
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University of Essex
2018
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.732640 |