Research Staff
Pedro Carneiro
Pedro is a Professor of Economics at University College London and an economist in the IFS’ Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap). His research interests include development economics, labour economics, the economics of education and microeconometrics. In the past he has examined issues such as the returns to education, human capital policy, and labor regulation in developing countries. He has studied poverty and education programs in several countries in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe.
Selected Publications
In a randomized control trial, the precision of an average treatment effect estimator and the power […]
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We study an intensive social programme in Chile that combines home visits to householdsin extreme poverty […]
We examine the labor market consequences of an exogenous increase in the supply of skilled labor […]
This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the […]
In a randomized control trial, the precision of an average treatment effect estimator and the power […]
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In a randomized control trial, the precision of an average treatment effect estimator and the power […]
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This article studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in […]
Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for diff erentiated products in […]
In a randomized control trial, the precision of an average treatment e ffect estimator can be […]
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We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to teachers within schools […]