Poverty, inequality and social mobility

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

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?

We introduce a novel framework for individual-level welfare analysis.

We study spillover effects within criminal networks by leveraging the deaths of co-offenders as a source of causal identification.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the cornerstone food assistance program in the United States.

Using quasi-experimental variation from austerity-related cuts, I provide the first causal estimates of youth clubs' effects on education and crime.