Professor Costas Meghir

We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the British Household Panel Survey.

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1–12 in India, based on the Young Lives Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0–5 who are at risk of developmental deficits.

In this paper, we present evidence on changes in assortative mating and its implications for household inequality in the UK.

The extent to which like-with like marry is particularly important for inequality as well as for the outcomes of children that result from the union.

We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disavantaged children aged 12 to 24 months at baseline.

Using a cluster randomised controlled trial, we evaluated a psychosocial stimulation intervention, comprising weekly home visits for 18 months, in urban slums of Cuttack, Odisha, India.

We examine the equilibrium effects of college financial aid policies building an overlapping-generations life cycle model with education, labor supply, and saving decisions.

We specify an equilibrium model of car ownership with private information where individuals sell and purchase new and second-hand cars over their life-cycle.

We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the UK-BHPS which contains detailed records of training. Using policy changes over an 18 year period we identify the impact of training and work experience on wages, earnings and employment.

Many children in developing countries grow up in unstimulating environments, leading to deficiencies in early years’ developmental outcomes, particularly cognition and language. Interventions to improve parenting in the first 3 years of life have a clear impact on these outcomes, but the sustainability of effects is mixed, particularly for scalable interventions. There is little evidence of the effect of following-up an early life intervention with another one immediately afterwards. The objective of this study is to help fill this gap.

In this paper, we develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context.

We investigate partial insurance and group risk sharing in extended family networks.