Senior Management of International Research Consortia

• ERC Advanced Grant. Violence Against Women. 2.5 million Euros. Principal Investigator (2020-2025).

• ESRC Centre on Micro-Social Change, Essex, £7.7 million (2019-2024). Co-Investigator.

• ESRC Human Rights, Big Data & Technology, Essex, £5million (2015-2020). Co-Investigator.

• ESRC Centre on Micro-Social Change, Essex, £5million (2014-2019). Co-Director, Co-Investigator.

• Grand Challenges Canada consortium on Early Life Risk Factors for Cognitive Development and Human Capital. $3+ million, 2012-2014, https://gcc.pop.upenn.edu. Co-Principal Investigator.

• Grand Challenges Canada. Follow-up of a randomized control trial on maternal depression treatment and children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills in Pakistan. $880,000 (2012-2014). Co-investigator.

• ESRC Centre for Market and Public Organisation, Bristol, £5million (2006-2013). Co-Investigator.

• Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research, Bristol (2006-2013). Management Board.

Other Research Grants

• The gender wage gap and pro-female labour market policies: Evidence from Italian administrative data. Italian Social Security Institute (INPS). 2022 -2023. With E Rubolino, R Rathelot. Co-I. 6000 euros.

• Understanding the impacts of Covid-19 on domestic violence in Brazil. Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Knowledge for Action to End Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children Research Grant (2% success rate). June 2021-August 2022. With J Carvalho, J Vecci et al. Co-I. $126,000.

• Impacts of Covid-19 on domestic violence- Evidence from administrative data leveraging rolling quarantines in Chile. NBER Gender in the Economy Study Group Research Grants on Women, Victimization, and Covid-19. 2020-21. $20,000. With E Britto, D Clarke, P Phillipi, F Pino. Co-PI. 8 of 200 were funded (4%).

• Covid-19 and social distancing: impact on domestic violence and gender inequality. National Agency for Research and Development (ANID), Ministry of Science, Government of Chile award. 2020-2021. £46,500. With E Britto, D Clarke, P Phillipi, F Pino. Co-PI.

• Early life adversities and the emergence of risk and resilience: a longitudinal study of child development. National Institute of Health. 2020-2025. ~$3 million. Named researcher. With J Maselko.

• Impact of maternal depression treatment on maternal health, parental investment and child development. Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL). ~$1 million. 2020-2023. Co-Investigator. With J Maselko et al. 

• The long run effects of climatic extremes on mental and physical health- Evidence from the UK. Eastern Arc Facilitation Fund grant for a pilot project: £9582. With I Clots-Figueras and J Gomes.

• Addressing Intimate Partner Violence: Evaluating Interventions with Male Perpetrators vs Female Victims in Brazil. Innovations for Poverty Action. $177,500. 2019-2020. Joint Principal Investigator with Pietro Biroli, José Carvalho, Karlijn Morsink, Joseph Vecci.

• The Psychology of Poverty. Swedish Research Council, 495,000 Euros. 2019-2022. Co-Investigator. With P Martinsson.

• Using geocoded big data to identify causal links between infectious diseases and child developmental outcomes. USD 95,900. Grand Challenges Explorations Award. (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation). Co-Investigator. With R Rocha. 2019-2020.

• Understanding and preventing domestic violence in Brazil. Alderbert Foundation Research Award (Sweden), €50,000. Co-Investigator. With J Vecci and J Carvalho. 2018-.

• The dynamics of women’s work: Routes to economic and social empowerment. With M F Sierra. GCRF Essex, £4848. PI. 2020.

• Restricting access to health services: citizens’ rights and the effects of denying medical care in Colombia. With M F Sierra. GCRF Essex, £4920. PI. 2018-2019.

• Behavioural insights for evidence-based policy making to address domestic violence. British Academy, £10,000. Principal Investigator. With P. Nolen. 2017, delayed to 2018-2020.

• Welfare dependence and poverty traps. British Academy Sustainable Development Programme. £311,179. Principal Investigator. With R. Rocha. 2016-2018.

• Hospitalization and mortality under the new policy on emergency care in Brazil. British Academy: Newton Advanced Fellowship. £84,155. Co-I. With R Rocha. 2016-2019.

• Impacts of information on health-status on health-related behaviours-evidence from a quasi-experiment in the UKLHS. With A Delavande, P Fisher, J James. ~£200,000. ESRC. Co-investigator. 2016-2018.

• Women legislators and economic growth. International Growth Centre. Principal Investigator. ~£20,000. With T Baskaran, B Min and Y Uppal. 2016-2017.

• Religion- politicians and voters in India. International Growth Centre. Principal Investigator. £20,000. With I Clots and L Iyer. 2016-2018.

• Inequalities in access to health and the role of the Unified Health System in Brazil. RCUK-CONFAP Newton Fund. £73,000. Principal Investigator. With R Soares and R Rocha. 2015-2016.

• Evaluation of lifecourse consequences of policy innovations in health. Bank of Sweden. ~£250,000. Co-investigator with M Karlsson (Essen) and T Nilsson (Lund), 2013-2016.

• Religious political identity and public policy choices. International Growth Centre. £10,000. Principal Investigator. With L Iyer (Harvard), I Clots (Madrid) and G Cassan (LSE), 2012.

• Fertility and next generation consequences of the introduction of universal primary education in Nigeria. Nuffield Foundation. Principal Investigator. £15,000. With U Osili (Indiana), 2011-2013.

• Politician identity and policy implementation. International Growth Centre. £15,000. Principal Investigator. With L Iyer (Harvard) and I Clots-Figueras (Madrid), 2010-2011.

• The demand for environmental quality: The role of culture and information. Water Strategic Fund, University of Bristol. £6000. Principal Investigator. With S Gundry (Engineering, Bristol), 2010-2011.

• Short and medium-run returns of early life exposure to clean water programs: Evidence from Mexico. Water Strategic Fund, Bristol. £7000. Principal Investigator. With A Venkataramani (MGH).

• Wellcome trust funded consortium of UK academic departments engaged in training and research with the public health foundation of India. Participant (via Social Medicine), 2009-2014.

• Religion and mortality. ESRC-DFID, £119,000. Principal Investigator. Graded Outstanding, 2006-2008.

• Sibling death clustering in India. ESRC, £45,000. Co-Investigator. With W. Arulampalam. 2004-2006.

• Welfare provisioning under the English poor laws: Lessons for pro-poor growth today. DFID, Principal Investigator. £157,000.  With RM Smith, Cambridge 2000-2004.

• Child labour in developing countries. ESRC, Co-Investigator £90,000. With Chris Heady 1997-2000.

• Child labour in Pakistan and Ghana. DFID, Co-Investigator £60,000. With Chris Heady 1996-1999.

• Trade liberalisation and labour markets in Mauritius and India. DFID, £50,000. With Nottingham under an Oxford-Bristol-Nottingham Consortium. 1996-1998.