Research Staff

Pedro Carneiro

University College London

Pedro is a Professor of Economics at University College London. 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.

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Selected Publications

Tackling social exclusion: evidence from Chile

We study an intensive social programme in Chile that combines home visits to householdsin extreme poverty […]

Rita Ginja, Pedro Carneiro, Emanuela Galasso

12 January 2019 | Journal Article

Partial insurance and investments in children

This article studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in […]

Pedro Carneiro, Rita Ginja

20 October 2016 | Journal Article

Teacher quality and learning outcomes in kindergarten

We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to teachers within schools […]

M. Caridad Araujo, Pedro Carneiro, Yyannú Cruz-Aguayo, Norbert Schady

21 March 2016 | Journal Article

Long-Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start

This paper provides new estimates of the medium- and long-term impacts of Head Start on health […]

Pedro Carneiro, Rita Ginja

24 November 2014 | Journal Article

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Long term impacts of compensatory preschool on health and behavior: evidence from Head Start

Pedro Carneiro, Rita Ginja

22 January 2012 | CWP01/12

Enforcement of Labour Regulation and Informality

Enforcement of labour regulations in the formal sector may drive workers to informality because they increase […]

Pedro Carneiro, Rita Almeida

2 July 2012 | Journal Article

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Enforcement of labor regulation and informality

Rita Almeida, Pedro Carneiro

20 September 2011 | CWP29/11

Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia

This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model. […]

Pedro Carneiro, Michael Lokshin, Cristobal Ridao-Cano, Nithin Umapathi

21 November 2011 | Journal Article

Estimating marginal returns to education

This paper estimates marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different […]

Pedro Carneiro, James Heckman, Edward Vytlacil

30 October 2011 | Journal Article

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Estimating marginal returns to education

Pedro Carneiro, James Heckman, Edward Vytlacil

11 October 2010 | CWP29/10

Trends in quality-adjusted skill premia in the United States, 1960-2000

This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the […]

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae (Simon) Lee

30 October 2011 | Journal Article

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Trends in quality-adjusted skill premia in the United States, 1960-2000

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae (Simon) Lee

23 January 2009 | CWP02/09

Evaluating marginal policy changes and the average effect of treatment for individuals at the margin

This paper develops methods for evaluating marginal policy changes. We characterize how the effects of marginal […]

Pedro Carneiro, James Heckman, Edward Vytlacil

1 January 2010 | Journal Article

Estimating distributions of potential outcomes using local instrumental variables with an application to changes in college enrollment and wage inequality

This paper extends the method of local instrumental variables developed by Heckman and Vytlacil (1999, 2001, […]

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae (Simon) Lee

1 April 2009 | Journal Article