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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Links to a complete list of each team member's publications and outputs can be found on their bio page
Publication Year:
2024
Publication Title:
Religious proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India
We investigate how religion concordance influences the effectiveness of preventive health campaigns. Conducted during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in two major Indian cities marked by Hindu–Muslim tensions, we randomly assigned a representative sample of slum residents to receive either a physician-delivered information campaign promoting health-related preventive practices, or uninformative control messages on...
Publication Year:
2020
Publication Title:
Pre-apprenticeship training for young people: Estimating the marginal and average treatment effects
This paper evaluates traineeships, a voluntary programme of work placement and preparation that aims to help young unemployed people in England compete for jobs and apprenticeships. Applying the method of local instrumental variables to administrative data, we estimate the marginal treatment effects on apprenticeship take-up and employment. The heterogeneous impacts are then aggregated to form...
Publication Year:
2023
Publication Title:
Selective schooling and social mobility in England
We assess whether changing from an academically selective to a comprehensive schooling system promotes social mobility, using England as a case study. Over a period of two decades, the share of pupils in academically selective schools in England declined sharply and differentially by area. Using a sample of census records matched to data on selective...
