Research
Recent Publications and Working Papers
Jaeger, D. A. (2026) “Robustness? Range Tests for Equivalence and Equality Across Multiple Specifications,” CEPR Discussion Paper 21082, July.
Escamilla-Guerrero, D. and Peri, G. (2026) “The Short- and Long-run Effects of Railroads on Mexico-US Migration,” NBER Working paper 35358, June.
Escamilla-Guerrero, D., Papadia, A., and Zimran, A. (2026) “The Effects of Immigration on Agricultural Development: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration,” Journal of Development Economics, 183 (2026):103861
Leighton, M. and Merkurieva, I. (2025) “Childhood Aspirations and Adult Outcomes,” Economics Discussion Paper 2505, December.
Muttamba, M., O’Hare, B., Ramsay, A., Saxena, V., Kirenga, B., and Sabiiti, W. (2025) “A Laboratory-focussed Desk Review of Health Systems in Uganda, Kenya, and the UK to Respond to Current and Future Pandemics,” Journal of Global Health 15:04194.
Escamilla-Guerrero, D., Kosack, E., & Ward, Z. (2025) “The Impact of Violence on the Dynamics of Migration: Evidence from the Mexican Revolution,” Journal of Development Economics, 176, 103515.
Leighton. M. and Speer, J.D. (2025) “Family Background and College Major Choice: Evidence on Major Earnings Growth,” Education Finance and Policy, 2025.
Escamilla-Guerrero, D. (2024) “All aboard! Railroad access and Mexico-US mass migration,” University of Oxford, Economic and Social History Working Paper 212, October.
Leighton, M., Martine, A., Massaga, J. ., and Bunzari, E. (2024) “The Causal Effect of Parenting Style on Early Child Development,” EdWorkingPaper 24-996, July.
Bhatia, K. and Leighton, M. (2024) “Teachers on the Move: Evidence from a Large-Scale Learning Intervention during Lockdown,” Journal of Development Studies 60(7):1002-1020.
Chollete, L., Lu, C., and Merkurieva, I. (2024) “The Efficiency Premium in Executive Compensation,” SSRN Working Paper No. 4290936, March.
Ávila‐Parra, C., Escamilla‐Guerrero, D. , and Gálvez‐Soriano, O. (2024) “Minimum Eligibility Age for Social Pensions and Household Poverty: Evidence from Mexico,” Economic Inquiry 62(1):175-196
Merkurieva, I. (2023) “Retirement Coordination and Leisure Complementarity,” Labour Economics 85 (2023):102431.
Chollete, L., and Merkurieva, I. (2023) “Do Frictions Matter in the Market for Chief Executives?” SSRN Working Paper No. 3931565, October.
Leighton, M., Martine, A. and Massaga, J. (2023) “Fostering Early Childhood Development in Low-Resource Communities: Evidence from a Group-Based Parenting Intervention in Tanzania,” World Development 170 (2023):106335.
Escamilla-Guerrero, D., Lepistö, M., and Minns, C. (2023) “Explaining gender differences in migrant sorting: evidence from Canada-US migration,” IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Discussion Paper 16461, August.
Jaeger, D. A., Nunley, J., Seals, A., Sandra, C. L., and Wilbrandt, E.(2023) “The Demand for Interns,” Journal of Behavior and Economic Organization 209:372-390, May.
Escamilla-Guerrero, D., Kosack, E., and Ward, Z. (2023) “The impact of violence during the Mexican revolution on migration to the United States,” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 31531, May.
Escamilla-Guerrero, D., and López-Alonso, M. (2023) “Migrant self-selection and random shocks: Evidence from the panic of 1907,” The Journal of Economic History, 83(1):45-85.
Leighton, M. and Speer, J.D. (2023) “Major-Occupation Match Quality: An Empirical Measure Based on Relative Productivity,” The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 23(1):285-292.
Bhatia, K. and Leighton, M. (2022), “How to Make Decentralization Work? Evidence from a capacity-building intervention in local governance,” University of St Andrews School of Economics and Finance Working Paper No. 2206, December.
Augsburg, B., Bancalari, A., Durrani, Z., Vaidyanathan, M., and White, Z. (2022) “When Nature Calls Back: Sustaining Behavioral Change in Rural Pakistan,” Journal of Development Economics 158(2022):102933.
L. Neri, Pasini, E., and Silva, O. (2022) “The Organizational Economics of School Chains” (with E. Pasini and O. Silva), IZA Discussion Paper No. 15442, July 2022.
Leighton, M., Martine, A., and Massaga, J. (2022) “Fostering Early Childhood Development in Low-Resource Communities: Evidence from a Group-Based Parenting Intervention in Tanzania”, University of St Andrews School of Economics and Finance Discussion Paper 2204, April.
Escamilla-Guerrero, D., Kosack, E., and Ward, Z. (2021) “Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration,” Explorations in Economic History, 82, 101403.
Fachetti, E., Neri, L. and Ovidi, M. (2021) “Should you Meet The Parents? The Impact of Information on Non-Test Score Attributes on School Choice” (with M. Ovidi and E. Facchetti), Catholic University of Milan Working Paper 113, December 2021.
Arce, J.S.S., Warren, S.S., Meriggi, N.F., Scacco, A., McMurry, N., Voors, M., Syunyaev, G., Malik, A.A., Aboutajdine, S., Adeojo, O., Anigo, D., Armand, A., Asad, S., Atyera, M., Augsburg, B., Awasthi, M., Ayesiga, G.E., Bancalari, A., Nyqvist, M.B., Borisova, E., Bosancianu, C.M., García, M.R.C., Cheema, A., Collins, E., Cuccaro, F., Farooqi, A.Z., Fatima, T., Fracchia, M., Soria, M.L.G., Guariso, A., Hasanain, A., Jaramillo, S., Kallon, S., Kamwesigye, A., Kharel, A., Kreps, S., Levine, M., Littman, R., Malik, M., Manirabaruta, G., Mfura, J.L.H., Momoh, F., Mucauque, A., Mussa, I., Nsabimana, J.A., Obara, I., Otálora, M.J., Ouédraogo, B.W., Pare, T.B., Platas, M.R., Polanco, L., Qureshi, J.A., Raheem, M., Ramakrishna, V., Rendrá, I., Shah, T., Shaked, S.E., Shapiro, J.N., Svensson, J., Tariq, A., Tchibozo, A.M., Tiwana, H.A., Trivedi, B., Vernot, C., Vicente, P.C., Weissinger, L.B., Zafar, B., Zhang, B., Karlan, D., Callen, M., Teachout, M., Humphreys, M., Mobarak, A.M., and Omer, S.B. (2021) “COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in Low- and Middle-income Countries,” Nature Medicine 27:1385–1394, July.
Leighton, M. (2021) “Mother Tongue Reading Materials as a Bridge to Literacy,” University of St Andrews School of Economics and Finance Discussion Paper 2101, June.
Armand, A., B. Augsburg, and A. Bancalari (2021) “Coordination and the Poor Maintenance Trap: an Experiment on Public Infrastructure in India,” CEPR Discussion Paper 16284, June.
Jaeger, D.A., Arellano-Bover, J., Karbownik, K., Martínez-Matute, M., Nunley, J.M., Seals, R.A., Almunia, M., Alston, M., Becker, S.O., Beneito, P., Böheim, R., Boscá, J.E., Brown, J.H., Chang, S., Cobb-Clark, D., Danagoulian, S., Donnally, S., Eckrote-Nordland, M., Farré, L., Ferri, J., Fort, M., Cooley Fruewirth, J., Gelding, R., Goodman, A.C., Guldi, M., Häckl, S., Hankin, J., Imberman, S., Lahey, J., Llull, J., Mansour, H., McFarlin, I., Meriläinen, J., Mortlund, T., Nybom, M., OConnell, S.D., Sausgruber, R., Schwartz, A.E., Stuhler, J., Thiemann, P., van Veldhuizen, R., Wanamaker, M., and Zhu, M. (2021) “The Global COVID-19 Student Survey: First Wave Results,” Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-time Papers 79:152–217, May.
Duleep, H.O., Jaeger, D.A., and McHenry, P. (2021) “On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship,” CEPR Discussion Paper 15920, March.
Neri, L. and Pasini, E. (2020) “Heterogeneous Effects of School Autonomy in England,” University of St Andrews School of Economics and Finance Discussion Paper 2010, December.
Escamilla-Guerrero, D. and Lopez-Alonso, M. (2020) “Migrant self-selection in the presence of random shocks. Evidence from the Panic of 1907,” Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers 179, April, revised October 2020.
Escamilla-Guerrero, D. (2020) “Revisiting Mexican Migration in the Age of Mass Migration: New Evidence from Individual Border Crossings,” Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 53(4):207-225.
Leighton, M. and Speer, J. (2020), “Labor Market Returns to College Major Specificity,” European Economic Review128:103489.
Bancalari, A. (2020) “Can White Elephants Kill? Unintended Consequences of Infrastructure Development in Peru,” Institute for Fiscal Studies Working Paper W20/32, September.
Neri, L. (2020) “Moving Opportunities: The Impact of Public Housing Regenerations on Student Achievement,” Queen Mary University London School of Economics Working Paper 907, July.
Jaeger, D.A., Joyce, T.J., and Kaestner, R. (2020) “A Cautionary Tale of Evaluating Identifying Assumptions: Did Reality TV Really Cause a Decline in Teenage Childbearing?” Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 38(2):317-326.