RESEARCH: Projects I am working on

 

 



 

 

Here I list some projects I am working on.

 

Impact of Human Capital Interventions

 

“The impact of a creche programme in Rio”             

 with Pedro Carneiro, David Evans, Pedro Olinto and Norbert Schady

(slides)

 

 “The impact of a Scholarship Program in Mexico”              

 with Rafael de Hoyos and Costas Meghir

 

“The long run impact of a conditional cash transfer program in Colombia”              

 with Luca Pellerano and Olga Romero

 

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Human Capital Accumulation in Developing Countries

“Inferring  beliefs about the production function”           

 with Sarah Cattan

 

 

“Eliciting Beliefs about the production function”               

with  Flavio Cunha and Pamela Jervis

 

 

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Intra Household Allocation of resources

 

“The impact of targeting a conditional cash transfer program: evidence from Macedonia” 

with Alex Armand, Pedro Carneiro and Valerie Lechene

 

 

 

“Changing and Assessing Control: women empowerment and targeted transfers"

with Ingvild Almas, Alex Armand and Pedro Carneiro

 

 

 

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Consumption over the business cycle and the life cycle.

 

“(S)cars in US recessions”

with Kieran Larkin, Mario Padula and Morten Ravn

 

 

 

“Euler equations, subjective expectations and income shocks”

with Agnes Kovacs and Krisztina Molnar

 

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Risk Sharing

 

“Sticks and Carrots in Mexican Villages: Imperfect enforceability and subjective expectations” 

(Walras Bowley Lecture)

(slides)

 

 

Risk Sharing with Imperfectly Enforceable Contracts

with Melanie Morten and Jose Guerra

 

 

“Social Capital, Conflict and Risk Sharing” 

with Elisa Cavatorta

 

 

 

“Heterogeneous preferences and Risk Sharing” 

with Elisa Cavatorta and Bansi Malde

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Demographic trends, OLG Models, Saving.

“Can habits explain high saving in fast growing developing economies?”

with Andrea Bonfatti, Sagiri Kitao and Guglielmo Weber  

 

 

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Measurement tools.

 

“The evolution of subjective income expectations”

with Manuel Arellano and Britta Augsburg

 

I am involved in several projects aimed at designing and validating new measurement tools in:

Child development, Beliefs, Subjective Expectations, Attitudes.

 

 

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Book.

 

In October 2014 I gave the Zeuthen lectures at the University of Copenhagen on life cycle models of consumption and labour supply. I am now writing a Monograph from those lecture that will be published by MIT press.

 

Slides for the three lectures can be found here, here and here.