WORKING PAPERS
Direct and Spillover Effects of Provider Vaccination Facilitation (with Julie Berry Cullen, Maria Knoth Humlum, and Peter Peter Rønø Thingholm) NBER WP No. 30951
Best abstract within the child and infant health program at the 2025 ASHEcon Awards.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Gendered effects of local government spending on entrepreneurship (with Silvia Mendolia and Anna Zhu)
Have the UK's devolution deals achieved intended outcomes? (with Silvia Mendolia and Anna Zhu)
Impact of forced displacement on mental well-being: Three Gorges Dam Project (with Yi Mu and Alice Mesnard)
PUBLICATIONS
Home-Country Natural Disasters and Mental Health of Migrants (with Prashant Bharadwaj, Denise Doiron, and Denzil Fiebig). 2025. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 87(2): 287-309.
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.