Working papers

Whether population health improves or worsens with changes in macroeconomic conditions is a long-standing question. Despite a substantial literature there is no clear consensus on the answer. Some studies find evidence that recessions are good for population health (i.e. poor health is pro-cyclical), while other studies find that health worsens in response to bad economic times (i.e. poor health is counter-cyclical). In addition, results for various health outcomes differ.

We carry out some analysis of the daily data on the number of new cases and number of new deaths by (191) countries as reported to the European CDC.

We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years apart.

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.

Many governments are considering expanding childcare subsidies to increase the labour force participation of parents (especially mothers) with young children.

Soda taxes aim to reduce excessive sugar consumption.

Nearly one-quarter of married, fertile-age women in Sub-Saharan Africa say that they want to avoid pregnancy but are not using contraceptives.

It is often desired to rank different populations according to the value of some feature of each population.

Individuals may be poor even if their household is not poor, because the intra-household distribution of resources may be unequal.

Models of simultaneous discrete choice may be incomplete, delivering multiple values of outcomes at certain values of the latent variables and co-variates, and incoherent, delivering no values.

This paper studies identification and inference in transformation models with endogenous censoring.

This paper examines the case for randomized controlled trials in economics. I revisit my previous paper “Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation” and update its message.

We provide a general framework for investigating partial identification of structural dynamic discrete choice models and their counterfactuals, along with uniformly valid inference procedures.

We examine how the effects of incentivizing individuals to use healthcare depend on the capacity of the health system.

Which housing characteristics are important for understanding homeownership rates?

Home visiting programs constitute an important policy to support vulnerable families with young children. They mainly aim to improve infant-parent relationships, however evidence on their effectiveness based on observational measures is relatively scarce.

This article provides a selective review on the recent literature on econometric models of network formation.

Household borrowing and spending rise with house prices, particularly for leveraged households, but household spending is not consumption.

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.

This paper introduces measures for how each moment contributes to the precision of parameter estimates in GMM settings.