Papers

Peer-Reviewed Publications


  1. Teacher pay and school productivity: Exploiting wage regulation Journal of Public Economics, 2016

(with Carol Propper) link

Coverage in the Financial Times


  1. Income contingent loan design: Lessons from around the world Economics of Education Review, 2019

(with Laura van der Erve and Tim Higgins) link


  1. Is improving access to university enough? Socio-economic gaps in the earnings of English graduates Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019

(with Lorraine Dearden, Neil Shephard and Anna Vignoles) link

Coverage in the Independent, Guardian, Financial Times and others


  1. A comparison of sample survey measures of earnings of English graduates with administrative data Journal for the Royal Statistical Society (Series A) with discussion, 2019

(with Neil Shephard and Anna Vignoles) link


  1. Health and Employment Amongst Older Workers Fiscal Studies, 2020

(with Eric French) link


  1. Do Income Contingent Student Loan Programs Reduce Labor Supply Economics of Education Review 2020

(with Jon Gruber) link


  1. The impact of health on labor supply near retirement Journal of Human Resources forthcoming

(with Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias and Eric French) link


  1. How much does degree choice matter? Labour Economics 2022

(with Chris Belfield, Franz Buscha, Lorraine Dearden, Matt Dickson, Laura van der Erve, Luke Sibieta, Anna Vignoles, Ian Walker, Yu Zhu)

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Coverage in The Economist (Previously titled: "The impact of undergraduate degrees on early-career earnings")

Book Chapters

"Education Production Functions" in Handbook of Contemporary Education Economics, Elgar, 2017

(with Anna Vignoles)

Work in Progress

The Dynamic Effects of Health on the Employment of Older Workers

(with Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias, Eric French and Yidi Wu)

Using catchment areas to estimate school effectiveness

(with Damon Clark, Ines Lee and Laura van der Erve)

Sorting and social mobility: an empirical matching model in higher education

(with David Goll and Monica Costa Dias)

The impact of undergraduate degrees on lifetime earnings

(with Ben Waltmann and Lorraine Dearden)

Revisiting the solution to dynamic discrete choice models: time to bring back Keane and Wolpin (1994)?

(with Ben Waltmann)