Research
PUBLICATIONS
Have Girls Been Left behind during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Gender Differences in Pandemic Effects on Children’s Mental Wellbeing (with Silvia Mendolia and Anna Zhu). 2022. Economic Letters 214: 110458.
The Intergenerational Impact of Reduced Generosity in the Social Safety Net (with Anna Zhu). 2021. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 192: 1-24.
Is it only a game? Video games and violence. 2021. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 188: 105-125.
Interview for the "Person of Interest" podcast by SSE Riga
Media coverage: Daily Mail, US news
Macroeconomic Shocks, Job Security and Mental Health: Evidence from the Mining Industry (with David Johnston and Michael Shields). 2020. American Journal of Health Economics 6(3): 348-371.
Victimisation, wellbeing, and compensation: Using panel data to estimate the costs of violent crime (with David Johnston and Michael Shields). 2018. Economic Journal 128(611): 1545-1569.
Mental Health Stigma(with Prashant Bharadwaj and Mallesh Pai). 2017. Economic Letters 159: 57-60. (Working paper version)
Justification bias in self-reported disability: New evidence from panel data (with Nicole Black and David Johnston). 2017. Journal of Health Economics 54: 124-134.
Who provides inconsistent reports of their health status? The importance of age, cognitive ability and socioeconomic status (with Nicole Black, David W. Johnston and Michael A. Shields). 2017. Social Science & Medicine 191: 9-18.
Education and health knowledge: Evidence from UK Compulsory Schooling Reform. (with David Johnston, Grace Lordan and Michael Shields). 2015. Social Science and Medicine 127: 92-100.
Does early schooling narrow outcome gaps for advantaged and disadvantaged children? (with Anna Zhu). 2015. Economics of Education Review 45: 76-88.
Media coverage: Herald Sun
Media and human capital development: Can video game playing make you smarter? 2015. Economic Inquiry 53(2): 1140-1155.
Media coverage: Marginal REVOLUTION, HBR blog network (March 5, 2015), National Affairs, Interview with LRT.lt (in Lithuanian)
The effects of old and new media on children's weight. 2015. Applied Economics 47(10): 1008-1018.
Does self-assessed health measure health? (with Denise Doiron, Denzil Fiebig, and Meliyanni Johar). 2015. Applied Economics 47(2): 180-194.
Hips and Hearts: The Variation in Incentive Effects of Insurance across Hospital Procedures (with Denise Doiron and Denzil Fiebig). 2014. Journal of Health Economics 37: 81-97.
Can you trust survey responses? Evidence using objective health measures (with Meliyanni Johar). 2013. Economic Letters 121(2): 163-166.
How does searching for health information on the Internet affect individuals' demand for health care services? 2012. Social Science and Medicine 75 (10): 1828-1835.
BOOK CHAPTERS
The effect of multitasking on children's non-cognitive skills. 2016. In The Economics of Multitasking edited by Gigi Foster and Charlene Kalenkoski, Palgrave MacMillan.
WORKING PAPERS
Psychological costs of migration: Home country natural disasters and mental health (with Prashant Bharadwaj, Denise Doiron, and Denzil Fiebig). 2020. City, University of London, Department of Economics Discussion Paper 20/03
WORK IN PROGRESS
Unintended consequences of HPV vaccination (with Julie Berry Cullen)
Direct and spill-over effects of vaccine hesitant providers (with Julie Berry Cullen, Maria Knoth Humlum, and Peter Peter Rønø Thingholm)