Professor Costas Meghir

Divorce reshapes family life, yet little is known about one of its most consequential features: the allocation of child custody.

This paper examines the impact of early childcare on academic achievement for children in grade 5 and grade 9, based on a 2003 policy expansion.

Private car quality information means the sale price reflects the average quality of cars sold and can be lower than the population's average quality.

We use our approach to show that marital sorting by education substantially changed between the 1950s and the 1970s cohorts. 

We specify and estimate a life-cycle model of consumption, housing demand, and labor supply using data on credit reports combined with Census data.

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.