Education and Training
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.
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
Education Quality and Teaching Practices (with Marina Bassi and Ana Reynoso), The Economic Journal, 130 (631): 1937–1965. (October 2020)
Education Policy and Intergenerational Transfers in Equilibrium (with Brant Abbott, Giovanni Gallipoli and Gianluca Violante), Journal of Political Economy. (December 2019)
School Grants and Education Quality: Experimental Evidence from Senegal (with Pedro Carneiro, Oswald Koussihouèdé, Nathalie Lahire and Corina Mommaerts), Economica. (2019)
Education and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment (with Marten Palme and Emilia Simeonova), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. (2018)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Resources and Standards in Urban Schools (with Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally), Human Capital. (2011)
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)
Conditional Cash Transfers and School Dropout Rates (with L. Dearden, Carl Emmerson and Christine Frayne), Journal of Human Resources. (2009)
Educational Reform, Ability, and Family Background (with Marten Palme), American Economic Review, 95 (1): 414–424. (March 2005)
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)
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)
The Effects of School Quality on Educational Attainment and Wages (with L. Dearden and J. Ferri), Review of Economics and Statistics. (February 2002)
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)