“Gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean” Oxford Open Economics; forthcoming (with I. Berniell and R. Fernandez,)
Coverage: VoxEU
“Pre-school quality and child development” (2024) Journal of Political Economy Vol 132(7) 2304-2345 (with A. Andrew, O. Attanasio, R. Bernal, L. Cardona Sosa, M. Rubio).
“Intergenerational mobility in the UK” (2024) Oxford Open Economics; Vol 3 (Issue Supplement 1) i684-i708 (with L. Macmillan, L. van der Erve, D. Sturrock)
Coverage: The Guardian; Daily Telegraph; Mail Online; The Times; Today Programme (BBC Radio 4)
“The gendered division of paid and domestic work under lockdown” (2022) Fiscal Studies 43(4): 325-340 (with A. Andrew, S. Cattan, M. Costa Dias, C. Farquason, L. Kraftman, A. Phimister, A. Sevilla)
Coverage: Economist, BBC, The Guardian, Sky News, iNews, The Telegraph, The Independent, ITV News, Today Programme (BBC Radio 4), BBC News (TV).
"Lively Minds: improving health and development through play - a randomised controlled trial evaluation of a comprehensive ECCE programme at scale in Ghana" BMJ Open (2022) 12:e061571. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2022-061571 (with B. Augsburg, et al)
"The future of parenting programs: I Design" Parenting Science and Practice (2022), 22(3) 201-234 (with M. Bornstein, L. Cluver, K. Deater-Deckard, N. Hill, J Jager, R Lerner and H. Yoshikawa)
“The impact of child work on cognitive development: results from four Low to Middle Income countries” Quantitative Economics (2022), 13(2) 425-465 (with M. Keane and T. Neal)
"Mortality among Black and White Americans by Age and Area-Level Socioeconomic Status and Relative to European Mortality, 1990–2018" PNAS (2021) 118(40) (with H. Schwandt, J. Currie et al).
Coverage: The Atlantic; Washington Post; WSJ; The Weeds; The Guardian; Die Zeit; MDR
"The Evolution of Mortality Inequality in 11 OECD Countries: Introduction" Fiscal Studies (2021) 9-23 (with J. Banks, J. Currie, K. Salvanes, H. Schwandt)
"Mortality inequality in England over the past 20 years" Fiscal Studies (2021) 42(1) 47-77 (with J. Banks, S. Cattan and L. Kraftman)
“Consumption insurance in networks with asymmetric information” Journal of the European Economic Association (2020)18(4): 1589-1618 (with O. Attanasio)
“Inequalities in children’s experiences of home learning during the COVID lockdown in England" Fiscal Studies (2020) 41(3) 653-683 (with A. Andrew, S. Cattan, M. Costa Dias, C. Farquharson, L. Kraftman, A. Phimister, A. Sevilla)
Coverage: The Guardian, BBC, TES, The Independent, Metro, Bloomberg, Sky News, The Telegraph, Today Programme (BBC Radio 4), BBC News (TV)
“Do Schools Reinforce or Reduce Learning Gaps between Advantaged and Disadvantaged Students? Evidence from Vietnam and Peru” Economic Development and Cultural Change (2017) 65(4):699-739 (with P. Glewwe and C. Rolleston)
“Disparities in children’s vocabulary and height in relation to household wealth and parental schooling: A longitudinal study in four low- and middle-income countries” Social Science and Medicine – Population Health (2017) Vol 3: 767-786 (with S. Reynolds, C. Anderson, J.Behrman, et al. )
“Maternal mental health and child growth and development in four low and middle income countries” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (2015) (with J.Behrman, I.Bennett and W.Schott)
“Equalising Opportunity? School Quality and Home Disadvantage in Vietnam” Oxford Review of Education (2014), 40(1):112-131 (with C.Rolleston)
“Changing Living Standards in Southern Indian Villages 1975-2006: Revisiting the ICRISAT Village Level Studies”, Journal of Development Studies (2013), 49 (12) (with S. Dercon and P. Krishnan)
“Non-cognitive Skill Formation in Poor Neighbourhoods of Urban India”, Labour Economics (2013) 24: 68-85(with P. Krishnan)
“Adult Mortality and Children’s Transition into Marriage” Demographic Research (2008), 19(42): 1551-74 (with K.Beegle)
“How Much Difference Does School Make and For Whom? A Two-Country Study of the Impact of School Quality on Educational Attainment” with C. Rolleston and E. Aurino, Ch. 9 in M. Bourdillon & J.Boyden (Eds.) Growing Up in Poverty: Findings from Young Lives, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014.
"Parental labour market instability and children's mental health during the pandemic" IFS Working Paper 23/21 (with S. Cattan, C. Farquharson, A. Phimister, A. McKendrick and A. Sevilla)
“Gender Norms, Violence and Adolescent Girls’ Trajectories. Evidence from a Field Experiment in India”, Submitted, IFS Working paper 22/41 (with Alison Andrew, Gabriela Smarrelli and Hemlata Verma)
Coverage: VoxDev
"Intergenerational income mobility in England and the importance of education" IFS Working Paper 22/23 (with P. Carneiro, S. Cattan, L. Dearden, L. van der Erve and L. Macmillan)
Selected Papers in Progress
"Improving early childhood development in Rural Ghana through scalable community-run play schemes" (with B. Caeyers, S. Cattan, L. Cardona Sosa and Abu Siddique)
"Measuring the impacts of teachers in Vietnam: teacher value-added and student cognitive and non-cognitive skills" (with P. Carneiro, P. Glewwe and A. Guha)
"The joint role of home and school inputs in children's learning" (with P. Carneiro, M. Giannola and A. Guha)
"The geography of social mobility in Norway" (with P. Bennett, P. Carneiro, K. Salvanes)