(see CV & Research Themes for Thematic Grouping)

(Re-)Submitted & R&R Papers

“The Geography of Child Disability in Italy: New Evidence from Administrative Data” (with P. Biasi and M. De Paola). Revised and resubmitted at a special issue “Children with Disability and Their Families” of European Societies.

One paper second R&R at Lancet (with various co-authors).

“Evaluating and Pricing Health Insurance in Lower-Income Countries: A Field Experiment in India” (with A. Malani, P. Holtzman, K. Imai, C. Kinnan, M. Miller, S.Swaminathan, A. Voena and B. Woda), revised and expanded IFS WP24/33, IZA DP17185 and NBER WP32239. Old version featured in BFI Insights, Ideas for India and VoxDev X2. R&R at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

“Parental Beliefs, Perceived Health Risks, and Time Investment in Children” (with M. Giannola and A. Toppeta). Updated version IFS WP 24-15. Rej&R at Journal of Applied Econometrics.

“The Menopause Penalty” (with R. Ginja, P. Persson and B. Willage), available as IFS WP25/10, CESIFO WP11761, CEPR DP20169, IZA DP17793, NBER WP33621, SIEPR WP25/14, HCEO WP2005-002. Featured in UCL News, SIEPR News, UiB News, EurekAlert!, Phys.Org, Femtech World, ScienceBlog, Fortune, Human Resource Director, ElektraBlog (US), Fortune Italia (Italy), AftenPosten, Bergen Tidende, FVN (Norway), Pressetext (Germany), Medonet (Poland), Quo El Diario, Mujeres a Seguir (most read 13/04) (Spain), Publico (Portuguese), Czechcrunch (Czech), Human Resources Director, Toronto Sun, NationTalk, Pieuvre Canada, CTVNews (Canada), HKNET (Hong Kong Economic Times), Medical Dialogues, ETHRWorld India, India Today, SheThePeople (India), SHRM! Gillian Goddard has written about it in Prof. Emily Oster’s ParentData: “What is the Menopause Penalty?”. Prof. Jenn Dowd has written about it in her blog: “Hot and bothered at work”. Prof. Ginja has been interviewed by Tim Phillips for CEPR. I have been interviewed by Stacey Brotzel for “This Morning” Radio Show (Edmonton, CA): you can listen to it here and in the podcast version. We also have a NotebookLM podcast! Last but not least: we have been cited in the report of the Women’s Occupation Health Committee in Norway! Submitted.

Selected Work in Progress

“Gene x Environment Interactions: Polygenic Scores and the Impact of an Early Childhood Intervention in Colombia” (with O. Attanasio, P. Jervis, C. Meghir, and A. Okbay). Available as HCEO WP 2025-003, CEPR DP20221, CESifo WP 11869 , EGC DP1114, medXriv, NBER WP33781. Under revision.

“The State of Health Visiting Workforce in England: FOI Evidence 2016-2021″ (with D. D’Mello, G. Weber Costa, and Y. Yu). In preparation for release.

“Workforce quality in early intervention: Evidence from a large-scale home-visiting programme” (with S. Cattan and C. Farquharson). In preparation for submission.

“How Malleable Are COVID-19 Related Perceptions? Evidence from a light-touch information-&-sensitization intervention” (with P. Giustinelli and M. De Maria). Under revision.

“Beyond Birthweight: The Origins of Human Capital” (with K. Godfrey, M. Hanson, H. Inskip, S. Crozier, and C. Cooper), IFS WP 18-30, HCEO WP 2018-89, IZA DP 13296. Being updated with new data.

“Short- and Medium-Term Effects of In-Utero Health Interventions: Evidence from the Treatment of Gestational Diabetes” (with P. Rodrigues-Lesmes). Being updated with new data.

“Genes, Parental Education, and Inequalities in Human Capital: Evidence from two British Cohorts“. Being updated with new data.

“Nature and nurture in the production of childhood BMI” (with N. Daza-Baez, R. Hai, and F. Wang). Work in progress.

“The Malleability of Social Preferences: Causal Evidence for Disadvantaged Children” (with S. Kliem, P. Lergetporer, M. Sandner, and N. Seegis). Work in progress.