About me: I am Professor of Economics and Deputy Head of the Department of Economics for Research at the University of York. I am also the Co-Leader of the Applied Micro-Econometrics Cluster within the Department (AME). Previously I worked for ten years at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, where I continue to be a Research Associate. I am also an IZA (Institute for Study of Labor) Research Fellow and a research associate of CHILD-Collegio Carlo Alberto (Torino).  

Research interests: My research is primarily on child development, education, gender economics and social network.  My work includes papers on gender role attitudes, peers effects, school and parental investments, children’s cognitive and socio-emotional development, and wage inequalities for disable and ethnic minorities. I currently work on gender stereotypes, child mental wellbeing and school misbehaviour, biases in school assessments and tutoring. My research work of mental wellbeing has been funded by the ESRC-SDAI project "Maternal Depression and Anxiety Disorders and Child Mental Health Outcomes".