A5062099917- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Education Systems and Policy
- Higher Education Governance and Development
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- School Choice and Performance
- FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Business, Education, Mathematics Research
University College London
2016-2025
Institute for Fiscal Studies
2014-2024
University of Bristol
2020-2021
London School of Economics and Political Science
2021
City, University of London
2021
Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros
2021
University College Lahore
2021
University of California, Berkeley
2021
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
2020
Inter-American Development Bank
2020
We present evidence from a randomized field experiment in rural Mongolia to assess the poverty impacts of joint-liability microcredit program targeted at women. find positive impact access group loans on female entrepreneurship and household food consumption but not total working hours or income household. A simultaneously introduced individual-liability delivers no significant impacts. Additional results informal transfers families friends suggest that joint liability may deter borrowers...
<b>Objective</b> To assess the effectiveness of an integrated early child development intervention, combining stimulation and micronutrient supplementation delivered on a large scale in Colombia, for children’s development, growth, hemoglobin levels. <b>Design</b> Cluster randomized controlled trial, using 2×2 factorial design, with municipalities assigned to one four groups: psychosocial stimulation, supplementation, combined or control. <b>Setting</b> 96 located across eight its 32...
<h3>Importance</h3> How population mental health has evolved across the COVID-19 pandemic under varied lockdown measures is poorly understood, and consequences for inequalities are unclear. <h3>Objective</h3> To investigate changes in sociodemographic from before first year of 11 longitudinal studies. <h3>Design, Setting, Participants</h3> This cohort study included adult participants UK population-based studies with prepandemic psychological distress. Analyses were coordinated these...
The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer program implemented in rural areas Colombia since 2002, on school enrollment and child labor. Using difference‐in‐difference framework, our results show that increased participation 14–17‐year‐old children quite substantially, by between 5 7 percentage points had lower younger children, region 1–3 points. work are largest relatively more urbanized parts particularly for whose domestic decreased around 13 after...
ObjectiveTo investigate a framework of correlates both mental illness and wellbeing in large, current, nationally representative sample children the United Kingdom.MethodAn ecologic including individual (sociodemographic human capital), family, social, wider environmental factors were examined 12,347 aged 11 years old from UK Millennium Cohort Study. Mental scores standardized to allow comparisons, variance explained by different predictors was estimated.ResultsMental weakly correlated (r =...
This paper gives an account of the origins, objectives and structure Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) -some 19,000 individuals born in UK 2000-2001 -and its use a wide range research on many aspects their lives childhood years.We highlight some mass output first five surveys to age 11 2012.Topics discussed are social inequalities child development; comparisons with other cohorts; areas not well covered by previous national cohorts: season birth, fathers, ethnicity childcare; parental behaviour;...
We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains cognitive and socio-emotional skills among sample of disadvantaged children aged 12 24 months at baseline. estimate determinants parents’ material time investments these evaluate impact treatment on such investments. then production functions for skills. The effects program can be explained by increases parental investments, emphasizing importance parenting interventions an...
Background Poor early childhood development (ECD) in low- and middle-income countries is a major concern. There are calls to universalise access ECD interventions through integrating them into existing government services but little evidence on the medium- or long-term effects of such scalable models. We previously showed that psychosocial stimulation (PS) intervention integrated cash transfer programme improved Colombian children's cognition, receptive language, home stimulation. In this...
Abstract While there is widespread agreement in societies like the UK that every child has right to a secure childhood and opportunity develop their full potential, this does not match with reality for many of 4 million children under age 5 years currently living UK. This article draws on existing evidence presents new UK-focused analysis nature, magnitude, evolution long-term implications early inequalities. Reflecting evidence, provides critical appraisal how policy aimed at supporting...
Understanding how higher education (HE) finance policy can affect HE decisions is important for understanding governments promote human capital accumulation. Yet there a severe lack of evidence on the effectiveness student aid in encouraging participation outside US, and none at all UK. This paper exploits reform that took place UK 2004, when maintenance grants were introduced students from low income families, having been abolished since 1999. occurred isolation any other changes, did not...
Incorrect knowledge of the health production function may lead to inefficient household choices and thereby suboptimal levels health. This paper studies effects a randomized intervention in rural Malawi that, over six-month period, provided mothers young infants with information on child nutrition without supplying any monetary or in-kind resources. A simple model first investigates theoretically how other including labor supply change response improved observed areas. We then show...
This article undertakes a quantitative analysis of substantial reforms to the system higher education (HE) finance in England, first announced 2004 and revised 2007. The introduced deferred fees for HE, payable by graduates through tax via income‐contingent repayments on loans subsidised government. uses lifetime earnings simulated authors consider likely distributional consequences graduates. It also considers costs taxpayers, how are shift balance funding HE between public private sectors.
We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains cognitive and socio-emotional skills among sample of disadvantaged children aged 12 24 months at baseline. estimate determinants material time investments these evaluate impact treatment on such investments. then production functions for skills. The effects program can be explained by increases parental investments, have strong outcomes are complementary both maternal...
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives and livelihoods, people already experiencing mental ill health may have been especially vulnerable.
We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend less likely to be breastfed, owing poorer breastfeeding support services in hospitals weekends. use this variation estimate effect of on children's development first seven years life, for a sample births low-educated mothers. find large effects cognitive but no health noncognitive during period childhood we consider. Regarding mechanisms, study how affects parental investments and quality mother-child relationship. (JEL I12,...
We present evidence from a randomized field experiment in rural Mongolia to assess the poverty impacts of joint-liability microcredit program targeted at women. find positive impact access group loans on female entrepreneurship and household food consumption but not total working hours or income household. A simultaneously introduced individual-liability delivers no significant impacts. Additional results informal transfers families friends suggest that joint liability may deter borrowers...
We present evidence from a randomized field experiment in rural Mongolia on the comparative poverty impact of group versus individual microcredit. find positive loans but not entrepreneurship and food consumption. Moreover, borrowers are less likely to make informal transfers families friends while opposite holds true for borrowers. This suggests that joint liability may deter using non-investment purposes with stronger impacts as result. no difference repayment rates between both types