Working papers

We investigate the historical origins of female genital cutting (FGC) and how FGC is associated with the Red Sea route of the African slave trade.

We estimate the health impacts of Sure Start, a universal integrated ECI in England, from infancy to adolescence. 

We provide new evidence that inflation inequality surged during the 2021–2023 cost-of living crisis.

Estimating intra-household sharing is crucial to understanding overall inequality. However, expenditure data is almost always at the household level.

I show that the adoption and extent of focal pricing practices in an industry in general do not lower average pass-through of input cost changes.

We find that women have lower emissions propensities than men, and therefore greater female empowerment is associated with lower household emissions.

In this paper, we estimate average equivalised consumption measures across local authority districts in Great Britain.

We collect data on the subjective beliefs of married, adult women not wanting a pregnancy and estimate a structural model of contraceptive choices.

We develop a tractable equilibrium model of the labour market with heterogeneous labour supply elasticities by occupation and across occupation pairs.

In UK data, I document the prevalence of misbeliefs regarding State Pension eligibility age (SPA) and these misbeliefs’ predictivity of retirement.

We study how house price shocks affect marital stability and household labor supply.

Focusing on a wave of austerity cuts, I show that police station closure increased violent crimes in census blocks near the defunct stations.

We show that a menopause diagnosis leads to lasting drops in earnings and employment, alongside greater reliance on social transfers.

This working paper studies the long-run effect of a cash transfer to disadvantaged students on educational attainment, earnings and crime.

The optimal design of incentive contracts critically depends on whether the tasks performed by agents are complementary or substitutable.

We analyse thousands of essays written by 11-year-old girls in 1969 to assess conformity with gender norms and its implications for future outcomes.

We demonstrate that poor air quality disproportionately impacts the human capital accumulation of economically disadvantaged children.

This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of socio-emotional skills during childhood, using the 1970 British Cohort Study in the UK.

We estimate local housing supply elasticities for 325 local authorities and 6,788 census tract areas in England.

How should governments respond to rapid increases in the cost of living driven by shocks to the prices of staple goods?