Publications in Refereed Journals
Fathers taking leave: evaluating the impact of Shared Parental Leave in the UK (joint with Eleonora Fichera, Melanie Jones and Ezgi Kaya), forthcoming in Fiscal Studies.
International student migration: Did Brexit close the door to EU students? (joint with Ines Homburg, Anneleen Huyghe and Suncica Vujic), forthcoming in Research in Labor Economics.
The "Friday effect": school attendance over the week (joint with Jonathan James), British Educational Research Journal, 2025, 51:1, 73-92. DOI: 10.1002/berj.4066
Previously circulated as a working paper: The "Friday effect": school attendance over the week (joint with Jonathan James), University of Bath, Department of Economics Working Paper no 98/23, 2023. Link
"Should I stay or should I go? migration intentions of teenagers with parents working abroad", Journal of Applied Economics, 2022, 25:1, 563-582, DOI: 10.1080/15140326.2022.2052001
Note: the empirical analysis in the papers "Out of sight, out of mind? The education outcomes of children with parents working abroad." and "Educational spillovers and parental emigration." has been done using data I collected in Poland. For details on the data, see MECP2012 Data section of this website.
The paper was previously circulated under the same title as a working paper: Edinburgh School of Economics Discussion Paper Number 252
Other refereed publications
Clifton-Sprigg, J. & Papps, K. L. (2021) Bilingualism in the labour market, in Labor Markets, Migration, and Mobility – Essays in Honor of Jacques Poot. Cochrane, W., Cameron, M. P. & Alimi, O. (eds.). Springer, Singapore, p. 77-95 19 p. (New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives; vol. 45, no. 1).
Working papers
Hate in the time of COVID-19: Racial crimes against East Asians (joint work with Joel Carr, Jonathan James and Suncica Vujic), IZA Discussion Paper 15718, 2022. Link
Love thy neighbour? Brexit and hate crime (joint work with Joel Carr, Jonathan James and Suncica Vujic; submitted), IZA Discussion Paper 13902, 2020. Link (submitted)
Maternity leave take-up in UK academia. Why are they hurrying back? (joint work with Eleonora Fichera and Simona Tudor), Department of Economics, University of Bath Working Papers no 97/23. Link (submitted)
A bad break up? Assessing the effects of the 2016 Brexit referendum on migration (joint work with Ines Homburg, Jonathan James and Suncica Vujic), IZA Discussion Paper 16468, 2023. Link (submitted)
Work in progress
The effect of working from home on school absence rates (joint with Jonathan James)
Ukraine-Russia war, refugee inflows and electoral outcomes in Poland (joint with Ines Homburg and Suncica Vujic)
Ukraine-Russia war, refugee inflows and attitudes towards other nations (joint with Ines Homburg, Anneleen Huyghe and Suncica Vujic)
Cost-benefit analysis of alternatives to parental leave policies in the UK (joint with Alistair Hunt, Lily Zelezetskii and Working Families)
Determinants and consequences of parental leave policies in the UK: case study of higher education (joint with Eleonora Fichera, Melanie Jones, Ezgi Kaya and Kathrin Morosow)
Determinants and consequences of parental leave policies in the UK: use of survey and administrative data (joint with Maria Cubel, Eleonora Fichera, Melanie Jones, Ezgi Kaya, Kathrin Morosow and Ana Weeks)
Price effects of UK's free childcare expansion (joint with Kerry Papps)
Effects of targeted programmes on female labour market participation in Jordan (joint with Maria Cubel, Katharina Lenner and Tewodros Kebede)
Discriminatory speech in the media (joint with Barbara Caddick, Tristan Cann, Cesar Jimenez and Thomas Larkin)
Poverty and productivity: role of disruptions in life (joint with Elnaz Bajoori, Sajid Chaudhury and Shasi Nandeibam)