Curriculum Vitae

CV (updated 28 July 2025)

# Thematic Grouping of Publications and Work in Progress (Reverse Chronological Order)

## 1. Early Childhood Interventions

More information on the early childhood interventions I work on:

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  • Conti, G., Attanasio, O., Jervis, P., Meghir, C., Okbay, A. “The Biology of Child Development: DNA Experimental Evidence from Colombia”. Submitted.
  • Conti, G., Weber Costa, G., Barlow, J. et al. “National Evaluation of Start for Life”. Work in progress.
  • Conti, G., Cattan, S., Farquharson, C. “Workforce quality in early intervention: Evidence from a large-scale home-visiting programme”. In preparation for submission.
  • Conti, G., Sandner, M., Brand, T., Kliem, S. “Early Home Visiting Delivery Model and Child Protection Service Involvement”. Submitted to a special issue of Child Abuse and Neglect.
  • Cattan, S., Conti, G., Farquharson, C., Ginja, R. “The Health Effects of Early Interventions: Evidence from Sure Start”. IFS WP 21-43. CEPR DP 16730. HCEO WP 2021-51, IZA DP 14868. R&R at the Journal of Human Resources.
  • Schepan, M., Conti, G., Sandner, M., Kliem, S., Brand, T. ” Comparing two early childhood home visiting models: Follow-up of a randomized trial at child age 7″. R&R at JAMA Pediatrics.
  • Conti, G., Gupta, S. “Early childhood interventions to reduce intergenerational inequality”. ‘Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality’, edited by L. Macmillan, J. Blanden, E. Kilpi-Jakonen and J. Erola, Edward Elgar editor. May 2024.
  • Conti, G., Sandner, M., Kliem, S. (2024). “The Effects of Early Home Visits on Child and Mother Mental Health at Primary School Age”. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2024.
  • Olds, D., Conti, G., Salvati, A. et al. (2024). “Early Home Visits and Health in Low-Income Mothers and Offspring: 18-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Trial”. JAMA Network Open, 7(1), 18 January 2024.
  • Conti, G. (2020). “The Economics of Prevention in the Early Years”. Chapter for the main textbook for public health nurses Community Public Health in Policy and Practice 3E, S. Cowley and K. Whittaker eds. Published by Elsevier.
  • Conti, G., Heckman, J.J., Pinto, R. (2016). “The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors”. Economic Journal, 126(596), F28-F65.
  • Campbell, F., Conti, G., Heckman, J.J., Moon, S.H., Pinto, R., Pungello, E., Pan, Y. (2014). “Early Childhood Investments Substantially Boost Adult Health”. Science, 343(6178), 1478-1485.
  • Conti, G., Heckman, J.J. (2013). “The Economics of Child Well-Being”. In the Handbook of Child Well-Being, Ben-Arieh, A., Frones, I., Casas, F., Korbin, J.E. (Eds.), September 2013, pp. 363-401.
  • Heckman, J.J., Conti, G. (2012). “Early Childhood Development: Creating Healthy Communities with Greater Efficiency and Effectiveness”. In Investing in What Works for America’s Communities: Essays on People, Place & Purpose, edited by Nancy O. Andrews and David J. Erickson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Low Income Investment Fund, 327-337.

## 2. Health Economics and Policy

  • Conti, G., Rodriguez-Lesmes, P. “Unintended Effects of In-Utero Health Interventions? Evidence from the Treatment of Gestational Diabetes”. Work in progress.
  • Conti, G., Biasi, P., De Paola, M. “The Geography of Child Disability in Italy: New Evidence from Administrative Data”. In preparation as invited submission to a special issue “Children with Disability and Their Families” of European Societies.
  • Conti, G., Ginja, R., Narita, R. “The value of health insurance: A household job search approach”. IFS WP 18-20. IZA DP 11706. HCEO WP 2018-050. Second R&R at the Journal of Labor Economics.
  • Conti, G., Malani, A., Holtzman, P., Imai, K., Kinnan, C., Miller, M., Swaminathan, S., Voena, A., Woda, B. “Evaluating and Pricing Health Insurance in Lower-Income Countries: A Field Experiment in India”. Submitted.
  • Conti, G., Giustinelli, P. “For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior”. Conditionally accepted at Health Economics.
  • Conti, G., Ginja, R. (2023). “Who Benefits from Free Health Insurance? Evidence from Mexico”. Journal of Human Resources, 58(1), 146-182.
  • Conti, G., Melnychuk, M., Morris, S., Pizzo, E. (2021). “The economic costs of child maltreatment in the UK”. Health Economics, 30(12), 3087-3105.
  • Kieling, C., Baker-Henningham, H., Belfer, M., Conti, G., Ertem, I., Omigbodun, O., Rohde, L.A., Srinath, S., Ulkuer, N., Rahman, A. (2011). “Child and Adolescent Mental Health Worldwide: Evidence for Action”. The Lancet, 378(9801), 1515-1525.

## 3. Developmental Lifecourse Approach to Health Inequality

  • Conti, G. “Genes, Parental Education, and Inequality in Human Capital”. Work in progress.
  • Conti, G., Mason, G., Poupakis, S. (2019). “The Developmental Origins of Health Inequality”. In the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Health Economics, Oxford University Press.
  • Conti, G., Heckman, J.J., Yi, J., Zhang, J. (2015). “Early Health Shocks, Intra-household Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes”. Economic Journal, 125(588), F347-F371.
  • Conti, G., Hansman, C. (2013). “Personality and the Education-Health Gradient”. Journal of Health Economics, 32(2), 480-485.
  • Conti, G., Heckman, J.J. (2013). “The Developmental Approach to Child and Adult Health”. Pediatrics, 131 Supplement 2, S133-S141.
  • Cole, S.W., Conti, G., Arevalo, J.M., Ruggiero, A.M., Heckman, J.J., Suomi, S.J. (2012). “Transcriptional modulation of the developing immune system by early life social adversity”. PNAS, 109(50), 20578-83.
  • Conti, G., Hansman, C., Heckman, J.J., Novak, M.F., Ruggiero, A.M., Suomi, S.J. (2012). “Primate Evidence on the Late Health Effects of Early Life Adversity”. PNAS, 109(23), 8866-8871.
  • Conti, G., Heckman, J.J. (2010). “Understanding the Early Origins of the Education-Health Gradient: A Framework that can Also be Applied to Analyze Gene-Environment Interactions”. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5(5), 585-605.
  • Conti, G., Heckman, J.J., Urzua, S. (2010). “The Education-Health Gradient”. American Economic Review P&P, 100, 234-238.

## 4. Maternal and Women’s Health

  • Conti, G., Augsburg, B., Luhrmann, M., Spinola, P., von Hinke, S. “Pregnancy, food purchases and nutritional quality”. In preparation for submission.
  • Conti, G., Ginja, R., Persson, P., Willage, B. “The Menopause Penalty”. IFS WP24/05. In preparation for submission.
  • Conti, G., Bryson, A., Peycheva, D., Sullivan, A., Hardy, R., Ploubidis, G. (2022). “Risk Factors for Early Natural Menopause: Evidence from the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts”. BMC Women’s Health, 22(1), 438.
  • Conti, G., Bryson, A., Peycheva, D., Sullivan, A., Hardy, R. (2022). “The Consequences of Early Menopause and Menopause Symptoms for Labour Market Participation”. Social Science and Medicine, 293.
  • Stephenson, J., Vogel, C., Hall, J., Hutchinson, J., Mann, S., Duncan, H., Woods-Townsend, K., de Lusignan, S., Poston, L., Cade, J., Godfrey, K., Hanson, M., Barrett, G., Barker, M., Conti, G., Geordan, S., Colbourn, T. (2019). “Preconception health in England: a proposal for annual reporting with core metrics”. Lancet, 393, 2262-71.

## 5. Nutrition and Child Health

  • Bolt, U., Conti, G., Hai, R., Daza Baez, N. “Nutrition, Exercise, and Genetics: Understanding the Emergence and Development of Child Obesity”. Work in progress.
  • Augsburg, B., Conti, G., Farquharson, C., Luhrmann, M., McKendrick, A., von Hinke, S. “Nutritional impacts of targeted food vouchers in early life”. Work in progress.
  • Augsburg, B., Conti, G., Luhrmann, M., Spinola, P., von Hinke, S. “Pregnancy, food purchases and nutritional quality”. In preparation for submission.
  • Conti, G., Godfrey, K., Hanson, M., Inskip, H., Crozier, S., Cooper, C. “Beyond Birthweight: The Origins of Human Capital”. IFS WP 18-30, HCEO WP 2018-89, IZA DP 13296. Under revision.
  • Conti, G., Poupakis, S., Ekamper, P., Bjiward, G., Lumey, L.H. (2024). “Severe Prenatal Shocks and Adolescent Health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter”. Economics and Human Biology, 02 March 2024.
  • Conti, G., Ekamper, P., van Poppel, F., Bjiward, G., Lumey, L.H. (2021). “Overweight and obesity at age 18 after pre-natal famine exposure”. International Journal of Obesity, 45(8), 1668-1676.
  • Conti, G., Heckman, J.J., Pinto, R., Pan, Y. (2015). “Early Health Shocks, Intra-household Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes”. Economic Journal, 125(588), F347-F371.

## 6. COVID-19 and Public Health

  • Conti, G., de Maria, M., Giustinelli, P. “Inform to Conform? Fostering Compliance to COVID-19 Rules with an Information-and-Sensitization Intervention”. In preparation for submission.
  • Conti, G., Giannola, M., Toppeta, A. “Parental Beliefs, Perceived Health Risks, and Time Investment in Children: Evidence from COVID-19”. IFSWP24-15. Submitted.
  • Conti, G., Hanson, M., Moodi, N. (2022). “Post-COVID economic recovery: women and children first…or last?”. Archives of Diseases in Childhood, 107(3), 214-215.
  • Bustreo, F., Conti, G., Armocida, B., Tronci, F., Rocco, C. (2022). “Policy efforts on Gender-based violence and adolescent and child maltreatment before and since COVID-19 in Italy”. GIGA Policy Briefing Paper, March 2022.
  • Topriceanu, C.-C., Wong, A., Moon, J.C., Hughes, A., Bann, D., Chaturvedi, N., Patalay, P., Conti, G., Captur, G. (2021). “Impact of lockdown on keyworkers – Findings from the COVID-19 survey in five UK national longitudinal studies”. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
  • Topriceanu, C.-C., Wong, A., Moon, J.C., Hughes, A., Bann, D., Chaturvedi, N., Patalay, P., Conti, G., Captur, G. (2021). “Evaluating access to health and care services during lockdown by the COVID-19 survey in five UK national longitudinal studies”. BMJ Open.
  • Conti, G., Johnson-Watts, E. (2021). “The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on time use, beliefs, childcare and child development for first-time parents in England”. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 106(Suppl 1). 

## 7. Methodological Contributions

  • Conti, G., De Nardi, M., Giustinelli, P., Wang, F. “Formulating, Identifying and Estimating Subjective Health Production Functions”. Work in progress.
  • Conti, G., Freyberger, J., Antweiler, A., Freeman, H. “Modelling Health Production Functions”. Work in progress.
  • Conti, G., Fruhwirth-Schnatter, S., Heckman, J.J., Piatek, R. (2014). “Bayesian Exploratory Factor Analysis”. Journal of Econometrics, 183(1), 31-57.
  • Conti, G., Pudney, S. (2011). “Survey Design and the Analysis of Satisfaction”. Review of Economics and Statistics, 93(3), 1087-1093