Working Papers
Choosing to Compete: How Different are Girls and Boys? (with Alison Booth) CEPR Working Paper, Essex Discussion Paper Gender Differences in Risk Behavior: Does Nurture Matter? (with Alison Booth) CEPR Working Paper, Essex Discussion Paper Newspaper & Radio Coverage regarding the two papers on gender above: BBC4, Dream100, Brisbane Times, Business Weekly, Daily Gazette, East Anglian Daily, Times Education Online. Cell-Phones and Economic Development: Evidence from South Africaa (with Stefan Klonner)
Unemployment and Family-Values: A Household Distribution Sensitive Measure of Unemployment and Some Applications
"Race and Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa (with Erica Field)
Work in Progress
Responding to Adverse Shocks: Evidence from Rural China (with Shuaizhang Feng)
Turning off the Lights: Crime, Public Announcement and Rolling Blackouts in Gauteng (with Stefan Klonner)
Published
"Vulnerability, Unemployment and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its Axiomatic Properties and Applications" (with Kaushik Basu) in Orasanta Pattaniaik, Koichi Tadenuma, Youngsheng Xu, and Naoki Yashihara (eds.) Rational Choice and Social Welfare, Springer: Heidelberg, 2009 BREAD Working Paper Version "Will The Real Family-Friendly Employer Please Stand Up: Who Permits Parents To Reduce Working Hours For Purposes of Childcare?" (with Robert Hutchens) in Kathleen Christensen and Barbara Schneider (eds.) Workplace Felxibility: Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce, Cornell University Press: Ithaca, NY forthcoming University of Essex Discussion Paper Version
