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Deprescribing Anticholinergic Medications in Hospitalised Older Adults: A Systematic Review Open

Rachel Griffith, Sean H. Lim, Julian Lin, Andrew Bates, Lewis Jones , et al. · 2025

Background Anticholinergic medication use is increasing, particularly among older adults due to polypharmacy and comorbidities. High anticholinergic burden is linked to adverse outcomes such as reduced mobility and increased dementia risk.…

Deprescribing Anticholinergic Medications in Hospitalised Older Adults: A Systematic Review Open

Rachel Griffith, Sean H. Lim, Julian Lin, Andrew Bates, Lewis Jones , et al. · 2025

Mainstreaming genomics in the National Health Service in England: a survey to understand preparedness and confidence among paediatricians Open

Rachel Griffith, Celine Lewis · 2025

Background The National Health Service in the UK is the first national healthcare system to offer genomic sequencing for rare disease diagnosis as routine care. Non-genetic medical specialists, including paediatricians, can now request gen…

POLICIES FOR INCLUSIVE GROWTH Open

Rachel Griffith · 2024

Several decades ago, Sig Prais concluded that the root cause of the UK’s poor industrial performance was the poor quality of education and training. In this lecture, I will make a related argument, focussing on the lack of opportunity in t…

Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers Open

Philippe Aghion, Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith, Antonin Bergeaud · 2024

Matched employee-employer data from the UK are used to investigate the importance of social skills, in particular team-work and communication with co-workers, as a driver of wage growth for workers with lower formal education. We find that…

Innovation and inequalities Open

Philippe Aghion, Rachel Griffith · 2024

Innovation is a key source of sustainable growth, but it can affect inequalities in many ways—increasing some inequalities and decreasing others. The impact of any particular innovation on inequalities will depend importantly on who contro…

Social Skills and the Individual Wage Growth of Less Educated Workers Open

Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith · 2024

The Use of a Structured Documentation to Improve Adherence to Clinical Guidelines Open

Samuel Ofei‐Dodoo, Mary Masterman, Rachel Griffith, Emily Manlove, Matthew Hoang · 2023

INTRODUCTION. Research has shown that structured documentation, like prepopulated “dot phrases,” can improve quality measures when compared to free text or dictation. This has been attributed to clinicians interacting more with the electro…

Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers Open

Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith · 2023

We use matched employee-employer data from the UK to highlight the importance of social skills, including the ability to work well in a team and communicate effectively with co-workers, as a driver for individual wage growth for workers wi…

Contents Open

Emmanuel Macron, Ufuk Akcigit, John Van Reenen, Edmund Phelps, Rachel Griffith , et al. · 2023

The costs of obesity Open

Rachel Griffith · 2023

Social Skills and the Individual Wage Growth of Less Educated Workers Open

Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith · 2023

The Use of Scanner Data for Economics Research Open

Pierre Dubois, Rachel Griffith, Martin O’Connell · 2022

The adoption of barcode scanning technology in the 1970s gave rise to a new form of data: scanner data. Soon afterwards, researchers began using this new resource, and since then a large number of papers have exploited scanner data. The da…

Validation of Resting Energy Expenditure Equations in Older Adults with Obesity Open

Rachel Griffith, Ryan Shean, Curtis L. Petersen, Rima Itani Al-Nimr, Tyler Gooding , et al. · 2022

It is unclear which energy expenditure prediction equation should guide weight loss interventions in older adults with obesity. We ascertained the validity of four equations commonly used in practice in a series of weight loss studies of a…

The decline of home‐cooked food Open

Rachel Griffith, Wenchao Jin, Valérie Lechêne · 2022

The share of home‐cooked food in the diet of UK households declined from the 1980s. This was contemporaneous with a decline in the market price of ingredients for home cooking relative to ready‐to‐eat foods. We consider a simple model of f…

Obesity, Poverty and Public Policy Open

Rachel Griffith · 2022

Obesity rates in the United Kingdom, and around the world, are high and rising. They are higher, and rising faster, amongst people growing up and living in deprivation. These patterns raise potential concerns about both market failures and…

Price Floors and Externality Correction* Open

Rachel Griffith, Martin O’Connell, Kate Smith · 2022

We evaluate the impact of a price floor for alcohol introduced in Scotland in 2018, using a difference-in-differences strategy with England as a control group. We show that the policy led to the largest reductions in alcohol units purchase…

Replication package for: Price Floors and Externality Correction Open

Rachel Griffith, Martin O’Connell, Kate Smith · 2022

Replication data for Griffith, O'Connell and Smith (2022) "Price Floors and Externality Correction" Economic Journal

Replication package for: Price Floors and Externality Correction Open

Rachel Griffith, Martin O’Connell, Kate Smith · 2022

Replication data for Griffith, O'Connell and Smith (2022) "Price Floors and Externality Correction" Economic Journal

Price floors and externality correction Open

Kate Smith, Martin O’Connell, Rachel Griffith · 2021

We evaluate the impact of a price floor for alcohol introduced in Scotland in 2018, using a difference-in-differences strategy with England as a control group.We show that the policy led to the largest reductions in alcohol units purchased…

Confidence in Telemedicine: Women’s Attitudes and Norms toward Mail-Order Birth Control Open

Rachel Griffith, Jin‐Ae Kang · 2021

With the framework of the theory of planned behavior (TPB), this study explores factors explaining the motivations of women to use mail-order birth control. An online survey was conducted with 603 women aged 18-44 from states in the southe…

Potential Consequences of Post‐Brexit Trade Barriers for Earnings Inequality in the UK Open

Rachel Griffith, Peter Levell, Agnes Norris Keiller · 2021

We examine the distributional consequences of post‐Brexit trade barriers on wages in the UK. We quantify changes in trade costs across industries, accounting for input–output links across domestic industries and global value chains. We all…

The decline of home cooked food Open

Rachel Griffith, Valérie Lechêne, Wenchao Jin · 2021

The share of home-cooked food in the diet of UK households declined from the 1980s. This was contemporaneous with a decline in the market price of ingredients for home cooking relative to ready-to-eat foods. We consider a simple model of f…

Price floors and externality correction Open

Rachel Griffith, Martin O’Connell, Kate Smith · 2020

We study the introduction of a price floor for alcohol that is aimed at correcting for negative consumption externalities. Policy effectiveness depends on whether the measure achieves large reductions in the most socially costly consumptio…

A survey of preference estimation with unobserved choice set heterogeneity Open

Gregory S. Crawford, Rachel Griffith, Alessandro Iaria · 2020

We provide an introduction to the estimation of discrete choice models when choice sets are heterogeneous and unobserved to the econometrician. We survey the two most popular approaches: “integrating over” and “differencing out” unobserved…

Potential Consequences of Post-Brexit Trade Barriers for Earnings Inequality in the UK Open

Rachel Griffith, Peter Levell, Agnes Norris Keiller · 2020

We examine the distributional consequences of post-Brexit trade barriers on wages in the UK. We quantify changes in trade costs across industries accounting for input-output links across domestic industries and global value chains. We allo…

Potential consequences of post-Brexit trade barriers for earnings inequality in the UK Open

Agnes Norris Keiller, Peter Levell, Rachel Griffith · 2020

Researchers are often interested in the relationship between two variables, with no single data set containing both. A common strategy is to use proxies for the dependent variable that are common to two surveys to impute the dependent vari…

The Impact of COVID‐19 on Share Prices in the UK* Open

Rachel Griffith, Peter Levell, Rebekah Stroud · 2020

The spread of COVID‐19, and international measures to contain it, are having a major impact on economic activity in the UK. In this paper, we describe how this impact has varied across industries, using data on share prices of firms listed…

Could COVID‐19 Infect the Consumer Prices Index?* Open

Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith, Peter Levell, Martin O’Connell · 2020

The spread of COVID‐19 has led to sweeping changes in the way households work, spend their time and shop, resulting in different shopping patterns and rapid price changes in some goods. How will changes such as these be reflected in headli…

A new year, a new you? Within-individual variation in food purchases Open

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Rachel Griffith, Martin O’Connell, Kate Smith , et al. · 2020

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