Poverty, inequality and social mobility

Twentieth-century U.S. data confirm the predictions, rank-based measures co-move while the intergenerational elasticity diverges as inequality rises.

We find that strategically concentrating resources on a single binding constraint maximizes the short-run learning gains per dollar spent.

We study New York City’s Community Schools Initiative using a difference-in-differences design.

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

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

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

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

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.

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