Research

Articles

Stereotyping and ethnicity gaps in teacher assigned grades , Labour Economics, 2024 [with Hester Burn, Laura Fumagalli].

Parental responses to information about school quality: Evidence from linked Survey and Administrative Data, Economic Journal 133, 2023, 2334-2402 [with Ellen Greaves, Iftikhar Hussain, Imran Rasul].

Going universal - The impact of free school lunches on child body weight outcomes, Journal of Public Economics Plus 3, 2022, 1-19 [with Angus Holford].

Does more free childcare help parents work more?, Labour Economics, 74, 2022 [with Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford]

Quantity and quality of childcare and children’s educational outcomes, Journal of Population Economics 35, 2022, 785–828  [with Jo Blanden, Emilia Del Bono, Kirstine Hansen]. 

Sibling spillover effects in school achievement, Journal of Applied Econometrics 34, 2019, 482-501  [with Cheti Nicoletti].

Do school inputs crowd out parents’ investments in their children? IZA World of Labor, 460 2019, 1-9.

The effect of school spending on student achievement: addressing biases in value-added models, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 181(2)2018, 487-515 [with Cheti Nicoletti]. 

Universal pre-school education: the case of public funding with private provision, Economic Journal 126(May) 2016, 682-723 [with Jo Blanden, Emilia Del Bono, Sandra McNally]. 

Inequality in pupils‘ test scores: how much do family, sibling type and neighborhood matter?, Economica, 80(318) 2013, 197-218 [with Cheti Nicoletti] 

Differences in Opportunities? Wage, employment, and house-price effects on migration, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 74(6) 2012, 831-855 [with Mark Taylor]. 

Dual-Earner Migration. Earnings gains, employment and self-selection, Journal of Population Economics 24(2) 2011, 477-497.

Residential mobility, quality of neighbourhood and life course events, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society) 173(3) 2010, 531-555 [with Mark Taylor]. 

Occupational Pensions, Wages, and Job Mobility in Germany, Scottish Journal of Political Economy 54(4) 2007, 531-552. 

The Role of Firm Pensions for Job Change in Germany, Journal of Contextual Exconomics, 2005, vol. 125 (1), 63-74.

Papers

University access: the role of background and Covid-19 throughout the application process. Working Papers of the Institute for Social and Economic Research no. 2022-7, Colchester: University of Essex [with Emilia Del Bono, Laura Fumagalli, Angus Holford].

Weight report letters: help or harm in preventing childhood obesity? Evidence from England 2021 [with Yuliya Kazakova]

Do secondary school inputs increase or decrease gaps in cognitive skills?, 2019 [with Cheti Nicoletti].

Breastfeeding and child cognitive outcomes: Evidence from a hospital-based breastfeeding support policy. Working Papers of the Institute for Social and Economic Research no. 2012-29, Colchester: University of Essex [with Emilia Del Bono].

Work in Progress

Universal Free School Meals and children's bodyweight: the role of programme features [with Angus Holford]

Parental mental health [with Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli]

The adverse effects of weight reports in schools [with Yuliya Kazakova]

Parental investments in private tutoring [with Konstantina Maragkou and Cheti Nicoletti]

Sibling spillover effects in bad behaviour [with Hester Burn and Cheti Nicoletti]

The Under 5s during Covid-19 [with Gabriella Conti and Yuliya Kazakova]

The impact of Brexit on financial expectations and behaviours [with Bernhard Schmidpeter]

Chapters

Childcare and children’s development: features of effective programs, with Jo Blanden, in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance 2021, Oxford University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.662 

Schooling inputs and behavioural responses by families, in: S. Bradley and C. Green (eds.) The Economics of Education, A Comprehensive Overview, second edition 2020. London: Elsevier/Academic Press, p.217-227.

Moving home: wishes, expectations, and reasons, in: Stephanie L. McFall (Ed.): Understanding Society: findings 2012, University of Essex: Institute for Social and Economic Research p. 17-18 

The Local Environments, with Nick Buck, in: Stephanie L. McFall, Christine Garrington (Eds.): Early findings from the first wave of the UK’s household longitudinal study. Colchester: Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, 2011, p. 99-108