Fiscal StudiesPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1111/1475-5890.12360
Jordi Jofre-Monseny, Pilar Sorribas-Navarro
{"title":"Landfill tax and recycling","authors":"Jordi Jofre-Monseny, Pilar Sorribas-Navarro","doi":"10.1111/1475-5890.12360","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-5890.12360","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper provides new empirical evidence on the role of landfill taxes in reducing landfill waste and promoting recycling. We focus on the impacts of the 2017 landfill tax law reform in Catalonia, a Spanish region, which increased the tax rate from 18 to 47 euros per tonne over the period 2017–20. Using municipality-level data for Catalonia from the 2013–20 period, we contrast municipalities that differed in the use of door-to-door waste collection by the beginning of our study period. As door-to-door waste collection is advocated as especially efficient at reducing landfill waste, we hypothesise that municipalities that had not yet adopted this system had greater leeway in responding to the tax changes. Based on a two-way fixed effects design, our findings reveal large differential responses to the tax hike. Compared with municipalities that had implemented door-to-door waste collection by 2013, we estimate that those that had not done this responded to the tax hike by reducing landfill waste by an additional 12 per cent, reducing total waste by 4 per cent, and increasing the share of recycled waste and waste that is sorted as organic by 6 and 2.5 percentage points, respectively. We provide suggestive evidence that the adoption of door-to-door waste collection is the main mechanism driving these responses.</p>","PeriodicalId":51602,"journal":{"name":"Fiscal Studies","volume":"45 4","pages":"483-500"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-5890.12360","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140019090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fiscal StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-26DOI: 10.1111/1475-5890.12361
Richard Blundell
{"title":"Beyond tax credits and the minimum wage: the challenge of labour market inequality","authors":"Richard Blundell","doi":"10.1111/1475-5890.12361","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-5890.12361","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since the turn of the millennium, the UK has relied almost exclusively on two policies to address the adverse consequences of low pay and labour market inequality: in-work tax credits and the minimum wage. Successful as these policies have been at supporting family incomes and propping up hourly wages at the bottom, increasing numbers of less-educated workers find themselves in low-quality jobs with negligible wage growth, little training and poor career prospects. Work by itself is rarely a route to earnings progression. This paper looks at the motivation behind the expansion of in-work tax credits in the face of growing wage inequality and in-work poverty. It focuses on the impact on longer-term outcomes through human capital and skills. It argues for a balance of policies that goes beyond tax credits and the minimum wage to foster individual wage growth and improve opportunities for career progression for less-educated workers.</p>","PeriodicalId":51602,"journal":{"name":"Fiscal Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"25-42"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-5890.12361","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140025851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fiscal StudiesPub Date : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1111/1475-5890.12359
Rasmus Wiese, Steffen Eriksen
{"title":"Willingness to pay for improved public education and public healthcare systems: the role of income mobility prospects","authors":"Rasmus Wiese, Steffen Eriksen","doi":"10.1111/1475-5890.12359","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-5890.12359","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Income mobility prospects affect individuals’ willingness to pay higher taxes, or give part of their income, to improve the public healthcare and public education systems. In line with the prospects of the upward mobility hypothesis, risk-willing individuals who expect to move far up the socio-economic ladder are less willing to pay compared with individuals who expect no upward transition. Consistent with a social insurance effect, risk-averse individuals who hold modest upward prospects are more willing to pay compared with individuals without upward prospects. These findings are based on more than 19,000 observations from the third round of the Life in Transition Survey.</p>","PeriodicalId":51602,"journal":{"name":"Fiscal Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"55-76"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-5890.12359","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139602020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fiscal StudiesPub Date : 2024-01-17DOI: 10.1111/1475-5890.12358
James Banks, Monica Costa Dias
{"title":"A symposium on Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Survey: preface","authors":"James Banks, Monica Costa Dias","doi":"10.1111/1475-5890.12358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5890.12358","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51602,"journal":{"name":"Fiscal Studies","volume":"44 4","pages":"315"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-5890.12358","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fiscal StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-23DOI: 10.1111/1475-5890.12355
Michaela Benzeval, Thomas F. Crossley, Edith Aguirre
{"title":"A symposium on Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study: introduction","authors":"Michaela Benzeval, Thomas F. Crossley, Edith Aguirre","doi":"10.1111/1475-5890.12355","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-5890.12355","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study began in 2009, and built on and incorporated its predecessor the British Household Panel Survey. It is the largest survey of its kind in the world and provides rich opportunities for economic research and policy analysis. In this introduction to a symposium on Understanding Society, we review the main features of the study, how it is conducted, and evidence on data quality. We also discuss past and potential uses in economic research.</p>","PeriodicalId":51602,"journal":{"name":"Fiscal Studies","volume":"44 4","pages":"317-340"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-5890.12355","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139035377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fiscal StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-23DOI: 10.1111/1475-5890.12352
Peter Levell, David Sturrock
{"title":"Using Understanding Society to study intergenerational wealth mobility in the UK","authors":"Peter Levell, David Sturrock","doi":"10.1111/1475-5890.12352","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-5890.12352","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study enables researchers to track individuals as they grow up and form new households, making it invaluable for studying the intergenerational persistence of outcomes including income, health and wealth. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Understanding Society relative to other datasets, and document patterns of attrition as individuals transition from childhood to adulthood. We then use Understanding Society to document the intergenerational persistence of wealth in the UK. We find that the intergenerational persistence of wealth is greater than for earnings, and that only around half of the intergenerational persistence of wealth can be explained by the intergenerational persistence in earnings and education.</p>","PeriodicalId":51602,"journal":{"name":"Fiscal Studies","volume":"44 4","pages":"417-432"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-5890.12352","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139035385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fiscal StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-23DOI: 10.1111/1475-5890.12351
Annette Jäckle, Jonathan Burton, Mick P. Couper
{"title":"Understanding Society: minimising selection biases in data collection using mobile apps","authors":"Annette Jäckle, Jonathan Burton, Mick P. Couper","doi":"10.1111/1475-5890.12351","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-5890.12351","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study has a programme of research and development that underpins innovations in data collection methods. One of our current focuses is on using mobile applications to collect additional data that supplement data collected in annual interviews. To date, we have used mobile apps to collect data on consumer expenditure, well-being, anthropometrics and cognition. In this paper, we review the potential barriers to data collection using mobile apps and experimental evidence collected with the Understanding Society Innovation Panel, on what can be done to reduce these barriers.</p>","PeriodicalId":51602,"journal":{"name":"Fiscal Studies","volume":"44 4","pages":"361-376"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-5890.12351","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139035389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fiscal StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-23DOI: 10.1111/1475-5890.12353
Paul Fisher, Omar Hussein
{"title":"Understanding Society: the income data","authors":"Paul Fisher, Omar Hussein","doi":"10.1111/1475-5890.12353","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-5890.12353","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We introduce the income data of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study. First, we show that the data are widely used in academic and policy research. We then discuss the pros and cons of different types of data on household incomes. We go on to describe the income content of Understanding Society, emphasising key details of data collection and data processing – specifically the derivation of net household income totals. We perform a quality assessment that compares Understanding Society estimates of net household incomes to those from a reliable cross-sectional source – the Households Below Average Income series. We conclude that the Understanding Society income data are of high quality, and so are an excellent source for research on the income distribution or incomes more generally. We finish with a discussion of future directions for income data collection in the study.</p>","PeriodicalId":51602,"journal":{"name":"Fiscal Studies","volume":"44 4","pages":"377-397"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-5890.12353","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139035342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fiscal StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-23DOI: 10.1111/1475-5890.12354
Michaela Benzeval, Edith Aguirre, Meena Kumari
{"title":"Understanding Society: health, biomarker and genetic data","authors":"Michaela Benzeval, Edith Aguirre, Meena Kumari","doi":"10.1111/1475-5890.12354","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-5890.12354","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study includes a wide range of health measures, and in particular biomarker and genetic data. This makes it a unique resource for research on the economics of health. We review the main features of the biomarker data, how they are collected, and evidence on data quality. We also discuss examples of how these data have been used in economic research to date.</p>","PeriodicalId":51602,"journal":{"name":"Fiscal Studies","volume":"44 4","pages":"399-415"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-5890.12354","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139035554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fiscal StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-23DOI: 10.1111/1475-5890.12357
Peter Lynn, Pablo Cabrera-Álvarez, Paul Clarke
{"title":"Sample composition and representativeness on Understanding Society","authors":"Peter Lynn, Pablo Cabrera-Álvarez, Paul Clarke","doi":"10.1111/1475-5890.12357","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-5890.12357","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we provide an overview of the sample design of Understanding Society and the consequent nature of design weights as well as a description of procedures that are implemented in order to maximise participation by sample members and procedures that are implemented to produce non-response adjustments to the design weights. We then present some indicators of sample representativeness at the initial wave and of the impact that subsequent sample attrition has on this before concluding with some reflections on the nature of representativeness and estimation methods in the context of a highly complex sample design and complex patterns of missing data arising from non-response.</p>","PeriodicalId":51602,"journal":{"name":"Fiscal Studies","volume":"44 4","pages":"341-359"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-5890.12357","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139035383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}