Research
Working Papers
Child Health and Parental Responses to an Unconditional Cash Transfer at Birth (Revise and Resubmit at the Review of Economics and Statistics), with John Lynch, Aurélie Meunier, Rhiannon Pilkington, and Stefanie Schurer.
Working Paper: Latest version (October 2023) | IZA (Sep 2021)
Slides: NBER Summer Institute 2022 (July 2022)Same-Sex Teacher Effects in Education (Under review), with Jan Feld, Nicolás Salamanca and Ulf Zölitz.
Working Paper: University of Zurich Working Paper No. 438 (June 2023) | Website with interactive results
On the Mechanisms of Ability Peer Effects, with Nicolás Salamanca.
Working Paper: Melbourne Institute (Oct 2020) | IZA (Dec 2020)
Slides: Econometric Society Australasian Meeting (ESAM) (July 2021)
Media: The Conversation (Nov 2021) | ABC Radio Sydney Afternoons (15 Nov 2021)Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope, with Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikiola and many others.
Working Paper: I4R Discussion Paper Series (April 2024)
From Subsidies to Loans: The Effects of a National Student Finance Reform on the Choices of Secondary School Students, with Jan Kabátek.
Working Paper: Melbourne Institute (July 2021) | IZA (Aug 2021)
Two Decades of Welfare Reforms in Australia: How Did They Affect Single Mothers and Their Children?, with Stefanie Schurer and Angela Zhang.
Working Paper: IZA (Sep 2021)
Publications
Re-examining the relationship between patience, risk-taking, and human capital investment across countries (2024, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1-9.), with Jan Feld, Nicolás Salamanca.
Research in progress
Class Rank and Sibling Spillover Effects
Draft: JMP version (31 August 2022)
Integrating Minorities in the Classroom: The Role of Students, Parents and Teachers, with Krzysztof (Chris) Karbownik, Nicolás Salamanca and Yves Zenou.
Status: Draft in preparation.
Other: Best Paper Award at the 2023 Australian Labour Econometrics Workshop.Affirmative Action during Early Childhood: School Choice, Academic Performance and School Satisfaction, with Shushanik Margaryan and José Montalban Castilla.
Status: First draft coming soon.
How do teachers respond to smaller classes? Evidence and implications for student learning, with Damon Clark, Pierre Deschamps, and José Montalban Castilla.
Status: Preliminary results.
College Information Provision to Disadvantaged Youth, with Gloria Chen and Siqi Pan.
Status: Designing field intervention and recruiting participants in the field.