Professor Costas Meghir

Measuring how assortative matching differs between two economies is difficult, we show how the use of different measures can create different outcomes

The choices of policy makers affect the incentive to work at older ages and these incentives have important effects on retirement behavior. 

In this article, we discuss the framework used in economics to model parental investments and early childhood development.

In this paper, we assess a cluster-RCT intervention to enhance child stimulation in Colombia's FAMI parenting program.

We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the British Household Panel Survey.

In an open-label cluster-randomized control trial, we compared the effectiveness of weekly home visits and weekly mother-child group sessions.

This paper examines the social networks of young married women in rural Odisha, India.

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1–12 in India, based on the Young Lives Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0–5 who are at risk of developmental deficits.

In this paper, we present evidence on changes in assortative mating and its implications for household inequality in the UK.

The extent to which like-with like marry is particularly important for inequality as well as for the outcomes of children that result from the union.

We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disavantaged children aged 12 to 24 months at baseline.

Using a cluster randomised controlled trial, we evaluated a psychosocial stimulation intervention, comprising weekly home visits for 18 months, in urban slums of Cuttack, Odisha, India.

We examine the equilibrium effects of college financial aid policies building an overlapping-generations life cycle model with education, labor supply, and saving decisions.

We specify an equilibrium model of car ownership with private information where individuals sell and purchase new and second-hand cars over their life-cycle.