Published and Forthcoming Papers
- “Training,
productivity and wages in Italy”, Labour Economics, 12(4), August 2005,
557-576. Reprinted in Recent
Developments In The Economics of Training (2007), edited by F. Green, Edward Elgar
Publishing.
- “Estimating
the size of the UK illicit drug market” (with S. Pudney,
C. Badillo, M. Bryan, J. Burton and M. Iacovou), in Measuring different aspects of problem
drug use: methodological developments (2006), edited by N. Singleton,
R. Murray and L. Tinsley, Home Office Online Report
16/06.
- “The
Education-Health Gradient” (with J.J. Heckman and S. Urzua), American
Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 100(2), May 2010, 234-238.
Working Paper version available here.
The origins of
adult health disparities can be traced back to early childhood.
- “Understanding
the Early Origins of the Education-Health Gradient: A Framework that can
Also be Applied to Analyze Gene-Environment Interactions” (with J.J. Heckman), Perspectives on Psychological Science (Special Issue on Genetics), September 2010, 5(5), 585-605. Personalized
medicine and behavioral intervention.
- “Survey Design and the Analysis of Satisfaction” (with S. Pudney). The Review of Economics and Statistics,
forthcoming. Previous version available as “If you're
Happy and you Know It, Clap Your Hands! Survey Design and the Analysis of
Satisfaction”,
ISER Working Paper 2008-39. Do
people answer truthfully to satisfaction questions? Or do women really
care less than men about their wage and more about their hours?
- “Global
Child and Adolescent Mental Health” (with C. Kieling,
H. Baker-Henningham, M. Belfer,
I. Ertem, O. Omigbodun,
L.A. Rohde, S. Srinath, N. Ulkuer
and A. Rahman), accepted at The Lancet.
Working Papers
- “Constructing
Economically Justified Aggregates: An Application to the Early Origins of Health”
(with J.J. Heckman, H.F. Lopes and R. Piatek). Under
revision for the Journal of
Econometrics.
- “Popularity” (with A. Galeotti, G. Mueller and
S. Pudney), ISER Working Paper 2009-03. Selected media coverage: The
Sunday Times, The Telegraph , The Independent, Daily Post, BBC News, Freakonomics Blog, Marginal
Revolution Blog, Los Angeles
Times,
La Tercera, The Times of India, The West
Australian, BBC5 and New York
Times. Revision requested, Journal of
Human Resources.
- “Cannabis, Cognition and Wages”. New version coming soon!
- “The Dynamics of Cognitive Development” (with S. Pudney). New
version coming soon!
Work In Progress
- “Early
Endowments, Education, and Health” (with J.J. Heckman and S. Urzua)
- “Early
Health Shocks, Parental Responses, and Child Outcomes” (with J.J. Heckman,
J. Yi and J. Zhang)
- “Early
Life and Later Health: New Evidence from Rhesus Monkeys” (with C. Hansman, J.J. Heckman, A. Ruggiero and S. Suomi)
