Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor with tenure)
Department of Economics
University of Sussex
Research Associate, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Research Fellow, IZA
I am an applied microeconomist. I hold a BA (Hons), MPhil and PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge and was previously a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. My research focuses on labour economics, with a particular interest in family economics.
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Is Valentine's Day Worth the Romantic Investment? The Conversation (2024).
Selected Working Papers and Work in Progress
"Dowry, Old-Age Support and Labor Supply over the Lifecycle"
with Alison Andrew (University of Oxford) and Anusha Guha (UCL)
“Male Fertility: Facts, Distribution and Drivers of Inequality”
with Andreas Kotsadam and Bernt Bratsberg (Frisch Centre and University of Oslo)
Link to presentation in Gender and Family Webinar
“Greedy Kids and Greedy Work: How Flexibility at Work Shapes Fertility”
with Bernt Bratsberg (Frisch Centre and University of Oslo)
Publications
“Women's Fertility and Labor Market Responses to a Health Innovation"
(previously titled "Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality")
with Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick) and Atheen Venkataramani (UPenn)
Journal of the European Economic Association 21.4, August 2023.
Media impact: GLobalDev Blog Article;
World Bank Development Impact Blog;
RES Media Release
"Women's Careers and Family Formation”
in Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, ed. K. F. Zimmerman (Springer).
with Damian Clarke (Chile) and Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick)
August 2023
"Where did it go wrong? Marriage and Divorce in Malawi”
with Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen (KU Leuven)
Quantitative Economics 12.2, May 2021
“Noncooperative Decision Making in the Household: Evidence from Malawi”
Journal of Development Economics 134, September 2018, pp. 428-442.
Stata code for psasvy (Survey data version of psacalc by Emily Oster, 2015)
Instructions for psasvy
“Moral Hazard in Marriage: The Use of Domestic Labour as an Incentive Device”
Review of Economics of the Household 15, Lead Article, June 2017, pp. 357–382
“The Optimal Treatment of an Infectious Disease with Two Strains”
with Robert Rowthorn (Cambridge)
Journal of Mathematical Biology 74, June 2017, pp. 1753-1791.
Recent and Upcoming (*) Seminar and Conference Presentations
June 2024 - Society of Economic Dynamics Special Session, Barcelona (*)
May 2024 - New Advances in Family Economics Workshop, Paris (*)
February 2024 - University of York
December 2023 - Gender Issues and Development Workshop, Paris Nanterre University
October 2023 - Male Equity seminar, Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the Institute for Social Research
September 2023 - "Fathers and Families" workshop, University of Stockholm
June 2023 - SEHO Annual Conference, University of Copenhagen
May 2023 - Frisch Centre, University of Oslo
November 2022 - Paris School of Economics
June 2022 - 1st Workshop on Family and Migration Economics, IESEG School of Management
June 2022 - Family Economics Workshop, Leuven Summer Event
May 2022 - Centre for Fertility and Health, Oslo, 5th Annual Symposium
April 2022 - CERGE-EI
March 2022 - University of Cambridge
May 2021 - University of Maastricht
May 2021 - SEHO Annual Conference
September 2020 - Gender and Family Webinar Series
November 2019 - The Economics of Divorce and Marriage, Nuffield College, Oxford
November 2019 - University of Liverpool
October 2019 - University of Bonn
September 2019 - WOLFE Workshop of Labour and Family Economics, York
May 2019 - Prague Workshop on Gender and Family in the Labor Market
May 2019 - Society of Economics of the Household, Lisbon
April 2019 - RES Conference, Warwick
April 2019 - University of Tilburg
March 2019 - Frisch Centre, University of Oslo
March 2019 - Applied Microeconomics Workshop, University of Essex
March 2019 - Cattolica University, Milan
January 2019 - UCL CReAM
Older Discussions
- Blog post on Nava Ashraf's Plenary Lecture at the Oxford CSAE conference. Read here.
- "Do Mothers-in-Law Destroy Efficiency? Evidence from Rural India." by S. Gupta, C. Ksoll and A. Maertens. (CSAE Conference, 2017)
- "Improving the Quality of Centre-based Child-care in Colombia" by A. Andrew, O. Attanasio, R. Bernal, S. Krutikova and M. Rubio-Codina. (CSAE Seminar, 2016)
- "The Price of Gold: Dowry and Death in India" by S. Bhalotra, A. Chakravarty and S. Gulesci. (CSAE Seminar, 2015)
- "Natural Resource Booms and Human Capital Investment" by G. Toews and A. Libman. (CSAE Conference, 2013)