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

Enforcement of regulation, informal labor and firm performance

This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm’s use of informal labor and […]

Rita Almeida, Pedro Carneiro

12 January 2006 | CWP02/06

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Enforcement of regulation, informal labor and firm performance

Rita Almeida, Pedro Carneiro

1 March 2009 | Journal Article

The return to firm investment in human capital

In this paper we estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in […]

Rita Almeida, Pedro Carneiro

22 December 2005 | CWP21/05

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The return to firm investment in human capital

Rita Almeida, Pedro Carneiro

1 January 2009 | Journal Article

Ability, sorting and wage inequality

In this paper we examine the importance of heterogeneity and self-selection into schoolingfor the study of […]

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae (Simon) Lee

30 November 2005 | CWP16/05

Labor market discrimination and racial differences in pre-market factors

This paper investigates the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic […]

Pedro Carneiro, James Heckman, Dimitriy Masterov

1 April 2005 | Journal Article

Methods for evaluating the impact of education policies when the return to education varies across individuals

In this paper I summarize some recent developments in the literature on the econometrics of program […]

Pedro Carneiro

1 December 2003 | Journal Article

Estimating distributions of counterfactuals with an application to the returns to schooling and measurement of the effect of uncertainty on schooling choice

This article uses factor models to identify and estimate the distributions of counterfactuals. We extend LISREL […]

Pedro Carneiro, Karsten Hansen, James Heckman

1 May 2003 | Journal Article

Removing the veil of ignorance in assessing the distributional impacts of social policy

This paper summarizes our recent research on evaluating the distributional consequences of social programs. This research […]

Pedro Carneiro, Karsten Hansen, James Heckman

1 January 2001 | Journal Article