ERC Consolidator Grant: Skills and Poverty
(SKILLPOV)
ERC-2015-CoG-682349
Published and Forthcoming Papers
Forthcoming
The Impacts of a Multifaceted Pre-natal Intervention
on Human Capital Accumulation in Early Life (with Lucy Kraftman, Giacomo Mason,
Lucie Moore, Imran Rasul and Molly Scott), conditionally accepted at American
Economic Review
Intergenerational Mobility and the
Timing of Parental Income (with Italo Lopez-Garcia, Kjell Salvanes, and Emma
Tominey), forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy
Improving Access and Quality
in Early Childhood Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from the Gambia
(with Moussa Blimpo, Pamela Jervis and Todd Pugatch),
forthcoming at Economic Development and Cultural Change
The Effect of Gender-Targeted
Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures: Evidence from a
Randomized Experiment (with Alex
Armand, Orazio Attanasio and Valerie Lechene), forthcoming, The Economic
Journal
2020
Please Call Me John: Name Choice and
the Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930 (with Sokbae Lee
and Hugo Reis), Labour Economics, 62
Optimal Data
Collection for Randomized Control Trials (with Sokbae Lee and Daniel Wilhelm),
The Econometrics Journal, 23(1), 1-31
School Grants
and Education Quality: Experimental Evidence from Senegal (with Oswald
Koussihouede, Nathalie Lahire, Costas Meghir and Corina Mommaerts), Economica,
87, 28-51
2019
Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence
from Chile (with Emanuela Galasso and Rita Ginja), Economic Journal, 129(617)
2018
Measuring and
Changing Control: Womens Empowerment and Targeted Transfers (with Ingvild
Almas, Alex Armand, and Orazio Attanasio), Economic Journal, 128(612)
Enforcement of Labor
Regulation and Job Flows: Evidence from Brazilian Cities (with Ana Abras, Rita Almeida and Carlos Corseuil), IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 8(1), 2018
2017
Do Public Health
Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in
Eritrea (with Alex Armand, Andrea Locatelli, Selam Mihreteab and Joseph
Keating), Labour Economics,
45, 107-115
Average and Marginal Returns to Upper
Secondary Schooling in Indonesia (with Michael Lokshin,Cristobal
Ridao-Cano, and Nithin Umapathi), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 31(4), 2017
2016
Partial
Insurance and Investments in Children (with Rita Ginja), Economic Journal,
126 (596) F66-F95
Teacher Quality
and Learning Outcomes in Kindergarten (with Caridad Araujo, Yyannu Cruz, and
Norbert Schady), Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 131(3), 2016
Challenges to Promoting the Social
Inclusion of the Extreme Poor: Evidence from a Large Scale
Experiment in Colombia (with Laura Abramovsky, Orazio Attanasio, Kai Barron,
and George Stoye), Economia:
Journal of the LACEA, 16(2), 2016
2015
A Flying Start?
Long Term Consequences of Maternal Time Investments in Children During the
First Year of Life (with Katrine Loken and Kjell Salvanes), Journal of Political Economy, 123(2),
2015
2014
Long Term
Impacts of Compensatory Pre-School on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head
Start (with Rita Ginja), American
Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 6(4), 2014
2013
Maternal
Education, Home Environments and Child Development (with Costas Meghir and
Matthias Parey), Journal of European
Economic Association, 11 (S1), 2013
2012
Enforcement of
Labor Regulation and Informality (with Rita Almeida), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 4(3), 2012
2011
Trends in
Quality Adjusted Skill Premia in the United States (with Sokbae Lee), American Economic Review, 101 (6), 2011.
Estimating
Marginal Returns to Education (with James Heckman and Edward Vytlacil), American Economic Review, 101 (6), 2011.
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), 107-113, 2011
2010
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.
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.
2009
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
2008
The Returns to Firm
Investment in Human Capital (with Rita Almeida), Labour Economics, 2008
Inequality of Opportunity and
Inequality in Education Achievement in Portugal, Portuguese Economic Journal, 7(1), April 2008
2007
Which Skills
Matter (with Claire Crawford and Alissa Goodman), in D. Kehoe, Practice Makes Perfect: The Importance of
Practical Learning, Social Markets Foundation, 2007.
2005
Labor Market Discrimination
and Racial Differences in Pre-Market Factors (with James Heckman and Dimitriy
Masterov), Journal of Law and Economics,
2005.
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.
2004
Human Capital Policy for Europe, European Economy, Special Report no
3/2004, European Commision, 2004.
2003
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
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.
2002
The Evidence on Credit Constraints in
Post-Secondary Schooling (with James Heckman), Economic Journal, 2002.
2001
Removing the Veil of Ignorance in
Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policy (with Karsten Hansen and
James Heckman), Swedish Economic Policy
Review, 2001.
Working Papers
Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-Term
Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from North Macedonia (with Alex Armand,
Federico Tagliati and Yiming Xia), 2020
How Does Labor Demand React to
Changes in the Supply of Skills? Evidence from a Schooling Reform in Norway
(with Kai Liu and Kjell Salvanes), 2019
Evaluating the Effects of a Large Scale Parenting Intervention in Chile: Nadie Es Perfecto (with Paula Bedregal,
Miguel Cordero, Emanuela Galasso, Italo Lopez Garcia), 2019
The Value of Private Schools:
Evidence from Pakistan (with Jishnu Das and Hugo Reis), 2019
The Impact of Early Cognitive and
Non-Cognitive Skills on Later Outcomes (with Claire Crawford and Alissa
Goodman, 2007)
