Journal Publications 

2020–

1. Targeting High School Scholarships to the Poor: The Impact of a Program in Mexico (with Rafael de Hoyos and Orazio Attanasio), forthcoming Economic Development and Cultural Change.

2. Early Stimulation and Enhanced Preschool: A Randomized Trial (with Attanasio, Jervis, Day, Makkar, Berhman, Gupta, Pal, Phimister, Vernekar, and Grantham-McGregor), Pediatrics, 151 (S2). (2023)

3. Earnings Dynamics of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden 1985-2016 (with Ben Friedrich and Lisa Laun), Quantitative Economics, 13 (4). (2022)

4. Early Childhood Development, Human Capital and Poverty (with Orazio Attanasio and Sarah Cattan), Annual Reviews of Economics, 14. (2022)

5. Early Stimulation and Nutrition: The Impacts of a Scalable Intervention (with Orazio Attanasio, Raquel Bernal, Helen Henningham, Marta Rubio Codina, and Diana Maria Pineda Ruiz), Journal of the European Economic Association. (2022)

6. Migration and Informal Insurance: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial and a Structural Model (with Mushfiq Mobarak, Corina Mommaerts and Melanie Morten), Review of Economic Studies, 89: 452–480. (2022)

7. Group Delivery or Home Visits of Early Childhood Stimulation: A Cluster Randomized Control Trial (with Sally Grantham-McGregor, Akanksha Adya, Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg, Jere Behrman, Bet Caeyers, Monimalika Day, Pamela Jervis, Reema Kochar, Prerna Makkar, Angus Phimister, Marta Rubio-Codina, Karishma Vats), Pediatrics, 146 (6). (2020)

8. Wages, Experience and Training of Women over the Lifecycle (with Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias and David Goll), Journal of Labor Economics, 39 (S1): S275–S315. (2021) – Volume in honor of Joseph Altonji

9. Changes in Assortative Matching and Inequality in Income: Evidence for the UK (with Pierre André Chiappori, Monica Costa-Dias, Sam Crossman), Fiscal Studies, 41 (1): 39–63. (2020)

10. Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India (with Orazio Attanasio and Emily Nix), The Review of Economic Studies, 87 (6): 2511–2541. (2020)

11. Education Quality and Teaching Practices (with Marina Bassi and Ana Reynoso), The Economic Journal, 130 (631): 1937–1965. (2020)

12. Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Colombia (with Orazio Attanasio, Sarah Cattan, Emla Fitzsimmons, and Marta Rubio-Codina), American Economic Review. (2020)

2010–2019

13. Effects of a Scalable Home Visiting Intervention on Child Development in Slums of Urban India: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial (with Alison Andrew, Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg, Sally Grantham McGregor, and Marta Rubio Codina) Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61 (6). (2019)

14. Education Policy and Intergenerational Transfers in Equilibrium (with Brant Abbott, Giovanni Gallipoli and Gianluca Violante)  Journal of Political Economy, 127 (6). (2019)

15. School Grants and Education Quality: Experimental Evidence from Senegal (with Pedro Carneiro, Oswald Koussihouèdé, Nathalie Lahire and Corina Mommaerts), Economica. (2019)

16. Medium-Term Follow-Up of a Scalable Home Stimulation Intervention in Colombia: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial (with A. Andrew, O. Attanasio, E Fitzsimons, S. Grantham-McGregor and M. Rubio-Codina), PLOS Medicine. (2018)

17. Education and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment (with Marten Palme and Emilia Simeonova), American Economic Journal: Applied. (2018)

18. The Use of Structural Models in Econometrics (with Hamish Low), Journal of Economic Perspectives, 31 (2): 33–58. (2017)

19. The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice (with Pierre André Chiappori and Monica Costa Dias), Journal of Political Economy. (2018) – Issue in honor of Becker

20. Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: A Long Term Follow up (with Orazio Attanasio, Arlen Guarín, and Carlos Medina), American Economic Journal: Applied. (2017)

21. Female Labor Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform (with Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias and Jonathan Shaw), Econometrica. (2016)

22. Matching, Sorting and Wages (with Jeremy Lise and Jean Marc Robin) Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economic Dynamics 19: 63–87. (2016) – Volume in honor of Dale Mortensen. 

23. Wages and Informality in Developing Countries (with Renata Narita and Jean Marc Robin), American Economic Review. (April 2015) – Haralambos prize (Brazil) 

24. Using the infrastructure of a conditional cash transfer programme to deliver a scalable integrated early child development programme in Colombia: a cluster randomised controlled trial (with Orazio Attanasio, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Camila Fernández, Emla Fitzsimons and Marta Rubio-Codina), British Medical Journal BMJ, 349. (2014) 

25. The Impacts of Microcredit: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Britta Augsburg, Ralph de Haas and Heike Harmgart), American Economic Journal: Applied, 7 (1). (2015)

26. The socio-economic gradient of child development: cross-sectional evidence from children 6-42 months in Bogota (with Rubio-Codina M, Attanasio O, Varela N, Grantham-McGregor S.), Journal of Human Resources 50 (2): 464–83. (2015)

27. Enriching the home environment of low-income families in Colombia: a strategy to promote child development at scale (with Orazio Attanasio, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Camila Fernández, Emla Fitzsimons and Marta Rubio-Codina), Early Childhood Matters. (2013) – van Leer Foundation

28. Heterogeneity in Human Capital Investments: High School Curriculum, College Major, and Careers (with Joe Altonji and Erica Blom), Annual Review of Economics, 4: 185–223. (2012)

29. Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences, and Social Networks (with Orazio Attanasio, Abigail Barr, Juan-Camilo Cardenas, and Garance Genicot), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. (2012)

30. Maternal Education, Home Environments and the Development of Children and Adolescents (with Pedro Carneiro and Matthias Parey) Journal of the European Economic Association. (2012)

31. Education Choices in Mexico. Using a Structural Model and a Randomised Experiment to Evaluate PROGRESA (with Orazio Attanasio and Ana Santiago) Review of Economic Studies, 79: 37–66. (2011)

32. Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Trial (with Orazio Attanasio and Adriana Kugler) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. (2011)

33. Resources and Standards in Urban Schools (with Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally) Human Capital, 4 (4). (2011)

34. Changes in Consumption at Retirement: Evidence from Panel Data (with Emma Aguilla and Orazio Attanasio) Review of Economics and Statistics. (2011)

35. Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle (with Hamish Low and Luigi Pistaferri) American Economic Review, 100 (4): 1432–67. (2010)

36. Children’s Schooling and Work in the Presence of a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Rural Colombia (with Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimmons and Alice Mesnard), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 58 (2): 181–210. (2010)

2000–2009

37. Conditional Cash Transfers and School Dropout Rates (with L. Dearden, Carl Emmerson and Christine Frayne), Journal of Human Resources. (2009)

38. Identification of Treatment Effects Using Control Functions in Models with Continuous, Endogenous Treatment and Heterogeneous Effects (with J.P. Florens, J. J. Heckman and E. Vytlacil), Econometrica, 76 (5): 1191–1206. (2008) 

39. Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and non-participation (with Blundell, Chiappori and Magnac) Review of Economic Studies, 74: 417–45. (2007)

40. Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds (with Richard Blundell, Amanda Gosling and Hidehiko Ichimura), Econometrica, 75 (2): 323–63. (2007)

41. Collective Labour Supply with Children (with Richard Blundell and Pierre Andre Chiappori), Journal of Political Economy, 113 (6). (2005) 

42. Educational Reform, Ability, and Family Background (with Marten Palme), American Economic Review, 95 (1): 414–24. (2005)

43. Improving pupil performance in English secondary schools: Excellence in Cities, (with Steve Machin and Sandra McNally), Journal of the European Economic Association, 2 (2–3): 396–405. (2004)

44. Evaluating the Employment Impact of a Mandatory Job Search Assistance Program (with Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias, and John van Reenen), Journal of the European Economic Association, 2 (4): 596– 606. (2004)

45. A Retrospective of Friedman’s Theory of Permanent Income, Economic Journal (Features), 114 (496): F293– F306. (2004)

46. Wages, Experience and Seniority (with Christian Dustmann), Review of Economic Studies, 72 (1): 77–108. (2005)

47. Income Variance Dynamics and Heterogeneity (with L Pistaferri), Econometrica, 72 (1): 1–32. (2004)

48. Crime and Economic Incentives (with Steve Machin), Journal of Human Resources,39 (4): 958–79. (2004)

49. Pension Incentives and the Pattern of Early Retirement (with Richard Blundell and Sarah Smith), Economic Journal Conference Volume 2003

50. The Effects of School Quality on Educational Attainment and Wages (with L. Dearden and J. Ferri), Review of Economics and Statistics. (2002)

51. The Labour Market Impact of the Working Families’ Tax Credit (with Blundell, Duncan and McCrae) Fiscal Studies, 21: 75–104. (2000) 

52. The Changing Distribution of Male Wages in the UK, 1966-1992 (with Gosling and Machin) Review of Economic Studies, 67. (2000)

1990–1999

53. Moment Conditions for Dynamic Panel Data Models with Multiplicative Individual Effects in the Conditional Variance (with Frank Windmeijer), Annales d’Economie et de Statistique. (1999)

54. Human Capital Investment: the Returns from Education and Training to the Individual, the Firm and the Economy (with Blundell, Dearden and Sianesi), Fiscal Studies, 20 (1). (1999)

55. Humps and Bumps in Lifetime Consumption (with Attanasio, Banks and Weber), Journal of Business & Economic Statistics. (1999)

56. Estimating Labour Supply Responses using Tax Reforms (with Blundell and Duncan), Econometrica, 66 (4). (1998)

57. Unemployment, Discouraged Workers and Female Labour Supply (with R. Blundell and J. Ham), Research in Economics, 52 (2). (1998)

58. Job Creation, Technological Change and Adjustment Costs: Evidence from a Panel of British Firms (with Ryan and van Reenen) Annales d'Economie et de Statistique. 41 (12). (1996)

59. Labour market transitions and retirement of men in the UK (with E. Whitehouse), Journal of Econometrics, 79: 327–54. (1997)

60. Savings and Labor-Market Transitions (with Blundell and Magnac), Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 15 (2). (1997)

61. Intertemporal Nonseparability or Borrowing Restrictions? A Disaggregate Analysis using a U.S. Consumption Panel (with G. Weber), Econometrica, 64 (5): 1151–81. (1996)

62. The Evolution of Wages in the United Kingdom: Evidence from Micro Data (with E. Whitehouse), Journal of Labor Economics, 14 (1): 1–25. (1996)

63. Male Labour Supply in Sweden: Are Incentives Important? (with S.A. Agell), Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2 (2). (1995)

64. Dynamic Investment Models and the Firm's Financial Policy (with Stephen Bond), Review of Economic Studies, 61 (2): 197–222. (1994)

65. Financial Constraints and Company Investment (with Stephen Bond), Fiscal Studies, 15 (2). (1994)

66. Retirement Behaviour in Britain (with R. Disney and E. Whitehouse), Fiscal Studies, 15 (1). (1994)

67. Consumer Demand and the Life-Cycle Allocation of Household Expenditures (with R. Blundell and M. Browning), Review of Economic Studies, 61 (1): 57–80. (1994)

68. Labour Supply and Intertemporal Substitution (with Blundell and Neves), Journal of Econometrics, 59. (1993)

69. Taxation in Empirical Labour Supply Models: Lone Mothers in the UK (with Blundell and Duncan), Economic Journal, 102 (411). (1992)

70. The Working Behaviour of Young People in Rural Cote d'Ivoire (with R. Allesie, P. Baker, R. Blundell and C. Heady), World Bank Economic Review. (1992)

71. Frequency of Purchase and the Estimation of Demand Systems (with Jean-Marc Robin), Journal of Econometrics, 53: 53–85. (1992)

72. Female Labour Supply and On-the-Job Search: An Empirical Model Estimated Using Complementary Data Sets Discussion Paper 1989-06 (with M. Arellano), Review of Economic Studies, 59: 537–557. (1992)

73. The Effects of Male and Female Labor Supply on Commodity Demands (with M. Browning), Econometrica, 59 (4): 925–51. (1991)

1980–1989

74. Female Participation and Male Unemployment Duration in Greece (with Y. Ioannides and C. Pissarides), European Economic Review Conference Volume. (1989)

75. Unemployment and Female Labour Supply (with R.W. Blundell and J. Ham), Economic Journal, S97. (1987)

76. Bivariate Alternatives to the Tobit Model (with R.W. Blundell), Journal of Econometrics, 34: 179–200. (1987)

77. Labour Supply Specification and the Evolution of Tax Reforms (with Blundell, Symons, and Walker), Journal of Public Economics, 36. (1988)

78. Selection Criteria for a Microeconometric Model of Labour Supply (with R.W. Blundell), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1: 55–80. (1986)

79. On the Reform of the Taxation of Husband and Wife: Are Incentives Important? (with R.W. Blundell, E. Symons and I. Walker), Fiscal Studies, 5 (4): 1–22. (1984)