Research

Key Expertise: Applied Microeconomics

Primary Research Interests: Public Economics, Family Economics, Labor Economics

Thesis: Intergenerational Health

In this thesis I examine the long run, intergenerational impacts of exposure to policies from gestation through early childhood. I study the impacts on health and education and fertility of gestational exposure to understand if there are impacts across generations and to examine the mechanisms through which they flow. I set my study in the United Kingdom and study the introduction of policies such as the National Health Service in 1948. Using census data, and quasi- experimental econometrics, I examine the impacts on the first and second generation health, education and fertility outcomes and birth outcomes of the third generation. I also study the impacts by parental pathway to tease out the mechanisms through which the intergenerational effects flow. In my thesis, I focus on the period of gestation through early childhood focusing on policies that impact maternal and child welfare, through policies that impact this period. 

Paper 1: Long Run Effects of Gestational Exposure to the National Health Service in the United Kingdom: Health Outcomes in Adulthood . You can find an updated version here.