Research

Working Papers

• First Generation Elite: The Role of School Social Networks (with Sarah Cattan and Kjell Salvanes)

Second stage R&R at the American Economic Review.

• Universal Credit: Welfare Reform and Mental Health (with Mike Brewer and Thang Dang).

R&R at the Journal of Health Economics.

• Insurance against Income Shocks, Parental Investments and Child Development (with Pedro Carneiro and Kjell Salvanes).

Publications

• Child Socio-Emotional Skills: The Role of Parental Inputs (with Gloria Moroni and Cheti Nicoletti). 

Conditionally accepted at the Journal of Human Capital.

• Mothers Working During Preschool Years and Child Skills: Does Income Compensate? (with Cheti Nicoletti and Kjell Salvanes)

Journal of Labor Economics 2023 41(1).

Interview with Faculti.net here

• Parental Inputs and Socio-Economic Gaps in Early Child Development (with Lindsey Macmillan)

Journal of Population Economics 2022.

• Mental Health around Pregnancy and Child Development from Early Childhood to Adolescence (with Stephanie von Hinke and Nigel Rice)

Labour Economics, 2022 78.

• Intergenerational Mobility and the Timing of Parental Income (with Pedro Carneiro, Italo Lopez Garcia and Kjell Salvanes)

Journal of Political Economy, 2021 129(3).

• The Family Peer Effect on Mother's Labor Supply (with Cheti Nicoletti and Kjell Salvanes)

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10(3):,206-234.

• Response of Parental Investments to Child's Health Endowment at Birth (with Cheti Nicoletti and Kjell Salvanes), 2018, in Health Econometrics in Contributions to Economic Analysis, Baltagi, B. and Moscone, F. (eds.), Emerald Publishing.

• Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency (with Simon Burgess, Carol Propper)

The Economic Journal, 2017, 127, F117-141.

• Female Labour Supply and Household Employment Shocks: Maternity Leave as an Insurance Mechanism, 

European Economic Review, 2016, 87, 256-271.  Helen Robinson Prize for Best Paper by an Early Career Researcher at the WPEG Conference 2013.

• Smarter Task Assignment or Greater Effort: the Impact of Incentives on Team Performance, (with Simon Burgess Carol Propper, Marisa Ratto, Stephanie von Hinke)

The Economic Journal, 2010, 120(547), 968-989.

• The Male Wage Scar from Youth Unemployment (with Paul Gregg) 

Labour Economics, 2005, 12(4), 487-509.

Work in Progress

Mental health, employment trajectories and your local GP (with Julie Riise and Ingrid Ovidia Moe Telle).

Cohabiting, Childbirth and Child Human Capital (with Gloria Moroni, Cheti Nicoletti and Kjell Salvanes).

Peer Effects in Mother Groups (with Anne Toft-Hansen, Jonas Hirani and Hans Sievertsen).

Gender Norms on the Playground (with Kjell Salvanes and Warn N. Lekfuangfu).

Higher Education in the UK (with Ghazala Azmat, Jack Britton, Dita Eckardt and Andrew McKendrick).

Non-Technical Pieces

“The Coming Storm: Design of Active Labour Market Policies.” CEPEO, 2020.

How might the crisis affect children from poorer backgrounds? Economics Observatory, 2020.

Children’s socio-emotional skills and the home environment during the COVID-19 crisis, Vox 2020.

A family affair: how close relatives can push mums to work longer The Conversation 2017.

On the use of high powered incentive schemes in the public sector, Vox 2012.

In brief: Smoking During Pregnancy, CentrePiece, Winter 2007/2008.