Journal Publications by Topic

1. Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and non-participation (with Richard Blundell, Pierre Andre Chiappori, Thierry Magnac), Review of Economic Studies, 74: 417–445. (2007)

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

1. Crime and Economic Incentives (with Steve Machin), Journal of Human Resources, 39 (4): 958–979. (Fall 2004)

1. Durables and Lemons: Private Information and the Market for Cars (with Richard Blundell, Ran Gu, Hamish Low, Leth Soren Petersen), forthcoming Quantitative Economics.

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

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

4. The Effects of Male and Female Labor Supply on Commodity Demands (with Martin Browning), Econometrica. (July 1991)

1. Growing Apart: Declining Within- and Across-Locality Insurance in Rural China (with Orazio Attanasio, Corina Mommaerts and Yu Zheng), Journal of Development Economics. 172 (2025) 103366

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

3. 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)

4. 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) 

5. 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)

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

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

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

9. 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, Marta Rubio Codina), Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. (2019)

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

11. Medium-Term Follow-Up of a Scalable Home Stimulation Intervention in Colombia: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial (with Alison Andrew, Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons, Sally Grantham-McGregor and Marta Rubio-Codina), PLOS Medicine. (2018)

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

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

14. The socio-economic gradient of child development: cross-sectional evidence from children 6-42 months in Bogota (with Orazio Attanasio, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Marta Rubio-Codina, Natalia Varela), Journal of Human Resources, 50 (2): 464–483. (2015)

15. 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, 349. doi: 10.1136/bmj.g5785. (September 2014) 

16. 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. (June 2013) – van Leer Foundation 

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

17. 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. (January 2012)

18. 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)

19. 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. (January 2010)

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

1. Mothers’ Social Networks and Socioeconomic Gradients of Isolation (with Alison Andrew, Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg, Jere Behrman, Monimalika Day, Pamela Jervis and Angus Phimister), Economic Development and Cultural Change, Volume 73, Number 1. (October 2024)

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). (May 2023)

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

4. 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)

5. 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)

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

7. Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Colombia (with by O. Attanasio, S. Cattan, E Fitzsimmons, M Rubio Codina), American Economic Review. (January 2020)

8. 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, Marta Rubio Codina), Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. (2019)

9. 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)

10. 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): 464–483. (Spring 2015)

11. 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, 349. doi: 10.1136/bmj.g5785. (September 2014)

12.  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. (June 2013) – van Leer Foundation 

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

1. Targeting high school scholarships to the poor: the impact of a program in Mexico (with Orazio Attanasio and Rafael De-Hoyos) Economic Development and Cultural Change, Volume 72, Number 4. (July 2024)

2. 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. (January 2021) – Volume in honor of Joseph Altonji

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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)

9. 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. (January 2012)

10. 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)

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

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

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

14. Educational Reform, Ability, and Family Background (with Marten Palme), American Economic Review, 95 (1): 414–424. (March 2005)

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

16. 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): 569–606. (June 2004)

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

18. 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). (March 1999)

1. Trade and Domestic Distortions: The Case of Informality (with Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Pinelopi Goldberg and Gabriel Ulyssea) conditionally accepted Econometrica. 

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

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

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

2. Dynamic Investment Models and the Firm's Financial Policy (with Stephen Bond), Review of Economic Studies. (March 1994)

1. 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

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

3. Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle (with Hamish Low and Luigi Pistaferri), American Economic Review. (September 2010)

1. Consumer Bankruptcy, Mortgage Default and Labor Supply (with Wenli Li and Florian Oswald), forthcoming International Economic Review.

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

3. Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle (with Hamish Low and Luigi Pistaferri), American Economic Review. (September 2010)

4. Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and non-participation (with Blundell, Chiappori and Magnac), Review of Economic Studies, 74: 417–445. (2007)

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

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

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

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

9. Male Labour Supply in Sweden: Are Incentives Important? (with Ackum), Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2 (2). (Autumn 1995)

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

11. Taxation in Empirical Labour Supply Models: Lone Mothers in the UK (with Blundell and Duncan), Economic Journal, 102 (411): 265–78. (March 1992)

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

13. 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: 537–57. (July 1992)

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

15. Unemployment and Female Labour Supply (with R.W. Blundell and John Ham), Economic Journal, (1987)

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

17. Selection Criteria for a Microeconometric Model of Labour Supply (with R.W. Blundell), Journal of Applied Econometrics. (1986)

18. On the Reform of the Taxation of Husband and Wife: Are Incentives Important? (with R.W. Blundell, E. Symons and I. Walker), Fiscal Studies. (November 1984)

1. Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle (with Hamish Low and Luigi Pistaferri) American Economic Review. (September 2010)

2. A Retrospective of Friedman’s Theory of Permanent Income, Economic Journal, Features 114 (496): F293–F306(1). (June 2004)

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

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

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

6. Consumer Demand and the Life-Cycle Allocation of Household Expenditures (with R. Blundell and M. Browning) Review of Economic Studies. (January 1994)

7. Labour Supply and Intertemporal Substitution (with Blundell and Neves) Journal of Econometrics. (1993)

1. 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. 

1. Changes in marital sorting: Theory and evidence from the US (with Pierre-André Chiappori, Monica Costa-Dias and Hanzhe Zhang), forthcoming  Journal of Political Economy.

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

3. 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

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

2. 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. (September 2008) 

3. 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): 323-363. (March 2007) 

4. 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)

5. Bivariate Alternatives to the Tobit Model (with Blundell), Journal of Econometrics. (1987)

6. Selection Criteria for a Microeconometric Model of Labour Supply (with R.W. Blundell), Journal of Applied Econometrics. (1986)

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. 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. 

3. 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. (March 2007)

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

5. Income Variance Dynamics and Heterogeneity (with L Pistaferri) Econometrica, 72 (1): 1-32. (January 2004)

6. The Changing Distribution of Male Wages in the UK, 1966-1992 (with Gosling and Machin) Review of Economic Studies, 67: 635–66. (October 2000)

7. The Evolution of Wages in the United Kingdom: Evidence from Micro Data (with E. Whitehouse) Journal of Labor Economics. (January 1996)

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

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

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

4. The Labour Market Impact of the Working Families’ Tax Credit (with Blundell, Duncan and McCrae), Fiscal Studies, 21 (1): 75–104. (2000)