Working Papers
16. Guaranteed Employment in Rural India: Richer Households, Poorer Women? Revision requested at the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
15. High-Quality Early-Childhood Education at Scale: Evidence from a Multisite Randomized Trial (with William Dougan and Illia Polovnikov). Revision requested at the Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics.
14. Childcare and Parenting in the Production of Early Life Skills (with Sebastián Gallegos). Resubmitted to the Economics of Education Review.
Publications
13. The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education: Participant Benefits and Family Spillovers (with Frederik H. Bennhoff and Duncan Ermini Leaf). 2023. Accepted for publication at the Journal of Human Capital.
12. The Lasting Effects of Early Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans and their Children (with James J. Heckman and Victor Ronda). 2023. Journal of Political Economy. 131:6. pp. 1477-1506.
11. Parenting Promotes Social Mobility Within and Across Generations (with James J. Heckman). 2023. Annual Review of Economics. 15:1. pp. 349-388.
10. Three Criteria for Evaluating Social Programs (with James J. Heckman). 2022. Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis. 13:3. pp. 281-286.
9. Pricing Children, Curbing Daughters: Fertility and the Sex-Ratio During China's One-Child Policy. 2022. Forthcoming in the Journal of Human Resources.
- Published ahead of print on 04/2022
- Preprint version
- Accepted version
- Appendix
8. Early Childhood Education and Life-cycle Health (with James J. Heckman). 2020. Health Economics. 30:S1. pp. 119-141.
7. Quantifying the Life-cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program (with James J. Heckman, Duncan Ermini Leaf, María José Prados). 2020. Journal of Political Economy. 128:7. pp. 2502-2541.
6. Early Childhood Education and Crime (with James J. Heckman and Anna L. Ziff). 2019. Infant Mental Health Journal. 40:1. pp. 141-151.
5. Gender Differences in the Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program (with James J. Heckman and Anna L. Ziff). 2018. European Economic Review. 109. pp. 9-22.
4. Social Policy: Targeting Programmes Effectively (with James J. Heckman). 2017. Nature Human Behavior. 1:1. pp. 1-2.
- Invited article (not peer-reviewed)
- Published version
3. Early Childhood Education (with Sneha Elango, James J. Heckman, and Andrés Hojman). 2016. Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, Volume II. The University of Chicago Press, edited by Robert Moffitt. pp. 235-297.
- Invited book chapter
- Published version
- VOX, CEPR policy portal non-technical summary
2. The Price of Fringe Benefits when Formal and Informal Labor Markets Coexist (with David Argente). 2015. IZA Journal of Labor Economics. 4:1. pp. 1-12.
1. Why Do Formal Credit, Informal Credit, and both Types of Credits Coexist as Consumer Choices? (with Víctor Carreón and Sonia Di Giannatale). 2015. Economics Bulletin. 35:1. pp. 89-96.