Publications
Journal articles
- Manea, R., Piraino, P. and Viarengo, M. (2023). “Crime, Inequality and Subsidized Housing: Evidence from South Africa”. World Development. Volume 168 (2023).
- Walters, C., Mehl, G., Piraino, P., Jansen, J. and Kriger, S. (2022). “The impact of the pandemic-enforced lockdown on the scholarly productivity of women academics in South Africa”. Research Policy. 51
- Bloise, F., Brunori, P. and Piraino, P. (2021). “Estimating intergenerational income mobility on sub-optimal data: a machine learning approach”. 2021. Journal of Economic Inequality. 19:643–665
- Abel, M., Burger, R., and Piraino, P. (2020). “The Value of Reference Letters: Experimental Evidence from South Africa." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 12(3): 40-71.
- Moshoeshoe, R., Ardington, C and Piraino, P. (2019). "The effect of the Free Primary Education policy on school enrolment and relative grade attainment in Lesotho. Journal of African Economies. 28(5): 511-532
- Abel, M., Burger, R., Carranza, E. and Piraino, P. (2019). “Bridging the intention-behavior gap? The effect of plan-making prompts on job search and employment”. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(2): 284-301.
- Pellicer, M., Piraino, P. and E. Wegner. (2019). “Perceptions of inevitability and demand for redistribution: Evidence from a survey experiment”. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 159: 274-288
- Pellicer, M. and Piraino. P. (2019). “The effect of non-personnel resources on educational outcomes: evidence from South Africa”. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 67(4): 907–934
- Chen, W-H, Ostrovsky, Y. and Piraino, P. (2017). Lifecycle Variation, Errors-in-Variables Bias and Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Income Transmission: New Evidence from Canada”. Labour Economics, 44: 1-12.
- Kerr, A., Piraino, P. and Ranchhod, V. (2017). Estimating the size and impact of Affirmative Action in Undergraduate Admissions at the University of Cape Town. South African Journal of Economics, 8(4): 515-532.
- Piraino, P. (2015). Intergenerational earnings mobility and equality of opportunity in South Africa. World Development, 67: 396–405
- Piraino, P., Muller, S., Cilliers, J. and Fourie, J. (2014). The Transmission of Longevity Across Generations: The Case of the Settler Cape Colony, Research on Social Stratification and Mobility, 35: 105–119
- Picot, G. and Piraino, P. (2013). Immigrant Earnings Growth: Selection Bias or Real Progress? Canadian Journal of Economics, 46(4): 1510-1536.
- Corak, M. and Piraino, P. (2011). The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers, Journal of Labor Economics. Vol. 29 (1).
- Shenk, M, Mulder, M, Beise, J, Clark, G, Irons, W, Leonetti, D, Low, B., Bowles, S, Hertz, T, Bell, A. and Piraino, P. (2010). Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Agriculturalists: Foundations of Agrarian Inequality, Current Anthropology, 51(1): 65-83.
- Borgehoff-Mulder, M., Bowles, S. and Hertz. T., Bell A., Beise J., Clark G., Fazzio I., Gurven M., Hill K., Hooper P., Irons W., Kaplan H., Leonetti D., Low B., Marlowe F., McElreath R., Naidu S., Nolin D., Piraino P., Quinlan R., Schniter E., Sear R., Shenk M, Smith E., von Rueden C., and Wiessner P. (2009). The Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies, Science, 326(5953): 682-688.
- Steinberg, M., Piraino, P. and Haveman, R. (2009). Access to Higher Education: Exploring the Variation among Research Universities in the Prevalence of Pell Grant Recipient, Review of Higher Education, 39(2).
- Hertz, T., Jayasundera, T., Piraino, P., Selcuk, S., Smith, N. and Verashchagina, A. (2008). The Inheritance of Educational Inequality: International Comparisons and Fifty-Year Trends, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 7(2): (Advances), Art. 10.
- Piraino, P. (2007). Comparable Estimates of Intergenerational Income Mobility in Italy, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 7(2): (Contributions), Art. 1.
- Piraino, P. and Haveman, R. (2006). Generational Income Mobility: A Review Essay, Review of Income and Wealth, 52(3).
Book chapters
- Farysheuskaya, V. and Piraino, P. (2023). "Admission algorithms for affirmative action in higher education”. In: Bussani, M. Cassese, S. Infantino, M. (eds). Comparative Legal Metrics: Quantification of Performance as a Regulatory Technique, Brill.
- Piraino, P. and Senese, J. (2022). “Inequality of Opportunity”. In: Deshpande, A. (eds) Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action. Springer.
- Piraino, P. (2021). “Drivers of Mobility in the Global South”. In Iversen, V., Krishna, A. & Sen, K. (eds). Social mobility in developing countries: Concepts, methods, and determinants. Oxford University Press.
- Corak, M. and Piraino, P. (2016). Intergenerational earnings mobility and the inheritance of employers. In Kaushik Basu and Joseph Stiglitz (eds.) Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy. Vol II. Palgrave. New York.
- Haveman, R., Piraino, P., Smeeding, T. and Wilson, K. (2012) Child Development and Social Mobility in Ermisch, J., Jantti, M. and Smeeding, T. (eds.) From Parents To Children, New York: Russell Sage Foundation.