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