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
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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