Human capital

This paper studies the role of labour income tax policies when looking at wage inequalities.

We examine the wages of low skilled Canadian workers over the last quarter century and argue that they fit with an implicit contracting model with re-negotiation.

In this paper we analyse the findings from a series of 'public good' games that were conducted between in rural and urban Colombia with mainly poor participants.

This paper studies migration decisions of very poor households in an environment with a high level of violence.

We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace.

This paper looks at the value of pension rights in the context of the Teachers' Pension Scheme.

We model the choice of individuals to follow or not apprenticeship training and their subsequent career.

This paper looks at evidence as to whether expanding preschool education provides work incentives for mothers.

presented at Far East and South Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society

This paper investigates the puzzling evidence on wages and educational attainment observed in Brazil in the 1990s.

We specify a structural life-cycle model of consumption, labour supply and job mobility in an economy with search frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects.

This project analyses the findings from a series of "public goods" games that were conducted in the spring and winter of 2006 in 103 municipalities in rural and urban Colombia.

This paper presents evidence on the social capital in one particular firm, as embodied in the friendship ties among its workers.

We study the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes.