Pedro Carneiro

Reader (Associate Professor)                                        Associate Professor

Department of Economics                                               Department of Economics

University College London                                             Georgetown University

Email: p.carneiro@ucl.ac.uk

 

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Published and Forthcoming Papers

in Journals

Enforcement of Labor Regulation and Informality (with Rita Almeida), forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

 

Maternal Education, Home Environments and Child Development (with Costas Meghir and Matthias Parey), forthcoming in Journal of European Economic Association

 

Evaluating Indoor Residual Spray for Reducing Malaria Infection Prevalence in Eritrea: Results from a Community Randomized Control Trial (with Joseph Keating, Andrea Locatelli, Andemariam Gebremichael, Tewolde Ghebremeskel, Jacob Mufunda, SelamMihreteab and Daniel Berhane), Acta Tropica, 119 (2-3), 2011.

 

Estimating Marginal Returns to Education (with James Heckman and Edward Vytlacil), American Economic Review, 101 (6), 2011.

 

Trends in Quality Adjusted Skill Premia in the United States (with Sokbae Lee), American Economic Review, 101 (6), 2011.

 

Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin (with James Heckman and Edward Vytlacil), Econometrica, 78, 1, 2010.

 

Estimating Distributions of Potential Outcomes Using Instrumental Variables with an Application to Changes in College Enrolment and Wage Inequality (with Sokbae Lee),Journal of Econometrics, 2009

 

Enforcement of Regulation, Informal Employment, Firm Size and Firm Performance (with Rita Almeida), Journal of Comparative Economics, 2009

 

The Returns to Firm Investment in Human Capital (with Rita Almeida), Labour Economics, 2009

 

Inequality of Opportunity and Inequality in Education Achievement in Portugal, Portuguese Economic Journal, 7(1), April 2008

 

Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Pre-Market Factors (with James Heckman and Dimitriy Masterov), Journal of Law and Economics, 2005.

 

Methods for Evaluating the Impact of Education Policies when the Return to Education Varies Across Individuals, Cuadernos de Economia, 2003.

 

Estimating Distributions of Counterfactuals with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effect of Uncertainty on Schooling Choice (with Karsten Hansen and James Heckman), International Economic Review, 2003

 

The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling (with James Heckman), Economic Journal, 2002.

 

Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policy (with Karsten Hansen and James Heckman), Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2001.

 

Book Chapters

The economics of vocational education and training (with Lorraine Dearden and Anna Vignoles), in International encyclopedia of education: volume 8, eds P Peterson, E Baker & B McGaw, Elsevier, Oxford, pp.255-261, 2010.

 

Which Skills Matter (with Claire Crawford and Alissa Goodman), in D. Kehoe, Practice Makes Perfect: The Importance of Practical Learning, Social Markets Foundation, 2007.

 

Understanding the Sources of Ethnic and Racial Wage Gaps and Their Implications for Policy (with James J. Heckman and Dimitry V. Masterov), in L. Nielsen and R. Nelson, Rights and Realities: Legal and Social Scientific Approaches to Employment Discrimination, Springer-Verlag, 2005.

 

Human Capital Policy for Europe, European Economy, Special Report no 3/2004, European Commission, 2004.

 

Human Capital Policy (with James Heckman), in Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies (edited by James Heckman and Alan Krueger), MIT Press, 2003.

 

Working Papers

Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea (with Andrea Locatelli, Tewolde Ghebremeskel and Joseph Keating), 2012

 

Average and Marginal Returns to Upper Secondary Schooling in Indonesia (with Michael Lokshin, Cristobal Ridao-Cano, and Nithin Umapathi), 2011

 

A Flying Start? Long Term Consequences of Maternal Time Investments in Children During the First Year of Life (with Katrine Loken and Kjell Salvanes), 2011

 

Preventing Problem Behaviors in Childhood and Adolescence: Evidence from Head Start (with Rita Ginja), 2012

 

The Impact of Early Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills on Later Outcomes (with Claire Crawford and Alissa Goodman, 2007