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Working Papers

2023

1. Long-Term Effects of Rainfall Shocks on Foundational Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Peru
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER
   Also in PIER Working Paper Archive, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania (2022)
2. What If It Never Happened? Subjective Treatment Effects of a Negative Shock on Youth Labour Market Outcomes in Developing Countries
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER

2022

3. How Early Nutrition and Foundational Cognitive Skills Interconnect? Evidence from Two Developing Countries
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (4)
   Also in PIER Working Paper Archive, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania (2022) View citations (2)
4. Human Capital Development: New Evidence on the Production of Socio-emotional Skills
   Working Papers, Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER (2020) View citations (1)
5. Late-childhood foundational cognitive skills predict educational outcomes through adolescence and into young adulthood: evidence from Ethiopia and Peru
   PIER Working Paper Archive, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
   See also Journal Article Late-childhood foundational cognitive skills predict educational outcomes through adolescence and into young adulthood: Evidence from Ethiopia and Peru, Economics of Education Review, Elsevier (2024) View citations (2) (2024)
6. Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Public Works Programme
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER
   Also in PIER Working Paper Archive, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania (2022)
7. The Mental Cost of Job Loss: Assessing the Impact on Young Adults in Vietnam
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (1)
8. The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: the long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (5)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER (2020) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: The long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India, Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier (2022) View citations (8) (2022)

2021

9. Do More School Resources Increase Learning Outcomes? Evidence from an Extended School-Day Reform
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (5)
   Also in Working papers, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics (2021) View citations (6)
10. Expecting Better? How Young People Form Their Earnings Expectations
    IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (2)
11. Stratification of Returns to Higher Education in Peru: The Role of Education Quality and Major Choices
    IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (1)
    Also in Working Papers, Peruvian Economic Association (2021) View citations (1)
12. Unpacking the Post-lockdown Employment Recovery of Young Women in the Global South
    IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (1)

2020

13. Early Motherhood and Offspring Human Capital in India
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (1)
14. Human Capital Development
    Working Papers, Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department View citations (1)
15. Maternal Age and Offspring Human Capital in India
    VfS Annual Conference 2020 (Virtual Conference): Gender Economics, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER (2019) View citations (4)
    Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers, Courant Research Centre PEG

2018

16. The origins of cognitive skills and personality: the effect of in-utero climate shocks on children?s future life outcomes
    Proceedings of International Academic Conferences, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

2017

17. Smarter through Social Protection? Evaluating the Impact of Ethiopia's Safety-Net on Child Cognitive Abilities
    IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Smarter through social protection? Evaluating the impact of Ethiopia’s safety-net on child cognitive abilities, Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals (2019) View citations (9) (2019)

2016

18. Psychosocial Competencies and Risky Behaviours in Peru
    IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER
    See also Journal Article Psychosocial competencies and risky behaviours in Peru, IZA Journal of Labor & Development, Springer (2017) View citations (6) (2017)
19. Understanding Teenage Fertility, Cohabitation, and Marriage: The Case of Peru
    IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (3)
    Also in Avances de Investigación, Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) (2016) View citations (3)

2015

20. Nigeria
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group

2013

21. Is Self-Esteem a "Double Edged Sword"? Self-Esteem and the Onset of Adolescent Sexual Activity
    IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (1)

2012

22. The Cost of Acting "Girly": Gender Stereotypes and Educational Choices
    IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (21)
23. United we stand divided we fall: maternal social participation and children's nutritional status in Peru
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

Journal Articles

2024

1. Does early nutrition predict cognitive skills during later childhood? Evidence from two developing countries
   World Development, 2024, 176, (C) View citations (1)
2. Late-childhood foundational cognitive skills predict educational outcomes through adolescence and into young adulthood: Evidence from Ethiopia and Peru
   Economics of Education Review, 2024, 100, (C) View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Late-childhood foundational cognitive skills predict educational outcomes through adolescence and into young adulthood: evidence from Ethiopia and Peru, PIER Working Paper Archive (2022) (2022)

2023

3. Children having children: early motherhood and offspring human capital in India
   Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, (3), 1573-1606 View citations (8)

2022

4. The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: The long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India
   Economics & Human Biology, 2022, 44, (C) View citations (8)
   See also Working Paper The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: the long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2022) View citations (5) (2022)
5. Young Lives, Interrupted: Short-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Adolescents in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
   Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58, (6), 1063-1080 View citations (11)

2020

6. Understanding teenage fertility in Peru: An analysis using longitudinal data
   Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24, (4), 1217-1236 View citations (4)
7. “Not everything is lost”: The role of education during adolescence to mitigate the effects of the early experience of poverty
   Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24, (4), 1193-1195

2019

8. Smarter through social protection? Evaluating the impact of Ethiopia’s safety-net on child cognitive abilities
   Oxford Development Studies, 2019, 47, (1), 79-96 View citations (9)
   See also Working Paper Smarter through Social Protection? Evaluating the Impact of Ethiopia's Safety-Net on Child Cognitive Abilities, IZA Discussion Papers (2017) View citations (1) (2017)

2018

9. Maternal group participation and child nutritional status in Peru
   Review of Development Economics, 2018, 22, (2), 459-483

2017

10. Do Dreams Come True? Aspirations and Educational Attainments of Ethiopian Boys and Girls
    Journal of African Economies, 2017, 26, (5), 561-583 View citations (23)
11. Psychosocial competencies and risky behaviours in Peru
    IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2017, 6, (1), 1-40 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Psychosocial Competencies and Risky Behaviours in Peru, IZA Discussion Papers (2016) (2016)

Books

2017

1. Stepping Up Skills in Urban Ghana
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group View citations (3)