Research in Progress

(Re-)Submitted Papers

“The Value of Health Insurance: A Household Job Search Approach” (with R. Ginja and R. Narita). IFS WP 18-20IZA DP 11706. HCEO WP 2018-050. Most downloaded HCEO and IFS WP in the months of August and September 2018. Featured in the HCEO Research Spotlight. Revised and resubmitted at Journal of Labor Economics.

For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior” (with P. Giustinelli). IZA DP 16143. IFS WP 23-19. MedXRiV. HEDG WP 23/05. CEPR DP 18157. HCEO WP 2023-12. Revised and resubmitted at Health Economics.

“The Health Effects of Early Interventions: Evidence from Sure Start” (with S. Cattan, C. Farquharson, R. Ginja and M. Pecher). IFS WP 22-43. CEPR DP 16730. HCEO WP 2021-51, IZA DP 14868. Featured in The Conversation. R&R at Journal of Human Resources.

Parental Beliefs, Perceived Health Risks, and Time Investment in Children” (with M. Giannola and A. Toppeta). Updated version IFS WP 24-15. Submitted.

Completed Papers

“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), IZA DP16861, IFS WP24/04, NBER WP32239, CESifo WP11006. Featured in BFI InsightsIdeas for India and VoxDev.

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. Under revision.

The Menopause Penalty” (with R. Ginja, P. Persson and B. Willage), IFS WP24/05.

Work in Progress

“Early Home Visiting Delivery Model and Child Protection Service Involvement” (with M. Sandner, T. Brand and S. Kliem). Invited submission to a special issue of Child Abuse and Neglect.

“The Biology of Child Development: DNA Experimental Evidence from Colombia” (with O. Attanasio, P. Jervis, C. Meghir and A. Okbay).

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

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

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

Genes, Parental Education, and Inequalities in Human Capital: Evidence from two British Cohorts” (with S. van Alten and P. Wu).

Understanding the Production of Child Development in Home Visiting at Scale: Experimental Evidence from England” (with A. Salvati, M. Robling and R. Cannings-John).

“(Growing) Up in Smoke? The impact of prenatal and postnatal maternal smoking on child development” (with S. Cattan and F. Salvati).