Working papers

We document substantial heterogeneity in workforce effectiveness in England’s national home-visiting programme for first-time teenage mothers.

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.

Demand-side policies which relax borrowing constraints for homebuyers, with the aim of increasing homeownership, are increasingly common.

I prove that, in a simple but general framework, expected pass-through is unchanged by the presence of focal pricing constraints.

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

AI is often predicted to raise productivity while displacing human work, yet organizational adoption remain uneven and aggregrate effects are mixed.

Are there particular social structures that allow ethnic diversity to coexist with political stability and economic development?

Many policy decisions involve trade-offs between lives and livelihoods. We provide estimates for a new welfare parameter that expresses this trade off

We find evidence that the passage of “DNA laws” streamlining access to forensic DNA technology was a watershed in the exoneration of Black Americans

The probability of entering the public sector rises with education, and this paper documents that this educational gradient has strengthened. 

We study the role of Gender Role Attitudes (GRA)—beliefs about appropriate roles for men and women—in marital sorting and intra-household allocations.

We document “Cheapflation”: within defined categories, prices rise fastest for low-quality essentials, disproportionately affecting poorer household.

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

We estimate the economic impacts of rape using population-wide Finnish police reports and hospital admissions.

We hypothesise that structured management practices are a General Purpose Technology that helps firms adapt to unforeseen shocks.

We trace the lifecycle of judicial bias in India’s criminal courts, leveraging the quasi-random assignment of judges to courts and cases.

We evaluate the introduction of freestanding Emergency Care Centers within Brazil’s publicly funded health system, leveraging rich administrative data

We propose a novel measure of intergenerational welfare mobility, “value-value” slope, including both pecuniary and non-pecuniary value of a job. 

Expert opinion suggests the planet’s feasibly sustainable population size is roughly half its current level. 

We analyze the impact of the EU’s Directive on Public Country-by-Country Reporting, where multinational corporations must disclose key financial data.