Working Papers
Insurance against Income Shocks, Parental Investments and Child Development (with Pedro Carneiro and Kjell Salvanes).
Gender equality through marriage (with Gloria Moroni, Cheti Nicoletti and Kjell Salvanes).
Publications
First Generation Elite: The Role of School Social Networks (with Sarah Cattan and Kjell Salvanes)
American Economic Review 2025, 115(12): 4369-4403.
Child Socio-Emotional Skills: The Role of Parental Inputs (with Gloria Moroni and Cheti Nicoletti).
Journal of Human Capital 2025, 19(3): 435-663.
Universal Credit: Welfare Reform and Mental Health (with Mike Brewer and Thang Dang).
Journal of Health Economics 2024, 98, 102940.
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.
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.
Introductions to Edited Journal Special Issues
‘A Symposium on Poverty, the Safety Net and Child Development: Preface’ (with Monica Costa Dias), Fiscal Studies, 46(1) 5-7, 2025.
‘Introduction to the Special Issue on Gender Norms in the Scottish Journal of Political Economy’ (with Nikki Sure), Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 72(3), 2025.
Work in Progress
Can resources alter the development path of a low birth weight child? (with Cheti Nicoletti, Kjell Salvanes and Francesca Zantomio).
Peer Effects in Mother Groups (with Anne Toft-Hansen, Jonas Hirani and Hans Sievertsen).
Higher Education in the UK (with Ghazala Azmat, Jack Britton, Dita Eckardt and Andrew McKendrick).
Non-Technical Pieces
"We can't tackle the mental health crisis without reforming social security", LSE Politics and Policy Blog, 2024.
"What Scotland's policies can teach Westminster about fighting poverty", LSE Politics and Policy Blog, 2023.
"Where's the credit? Single parents, universal credit and mental health", Changing Realities 2023.
“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.