Additional Writings & Knowledge Exchange


Information about a student’s academic rank can hurt their mental health – even if it’s not true. Published online 13 October 2022.

A piece I wrote for the LSE USAPP Blog where I describe the work Lukas Kiessling and I did on understanding academic rank effects among students and consequences for mental health. In this piece, I focus on the key intuitions and take home messages.

LSE USAPP Blog

How is coronavirus affecting the mental health of adolescents? Published online 21 August 2020.

An article I wrote for the Economics Observatory website, who provide information from academic research on a variety of topics related to challenges from Covid-19. In this article, I discuss what academic work can tell us about the potential impacts of Covid-19 on the mental health of adolescents and outline potential steps to take along with what we need to learn more about.

Economics Observatory

Update: How is coronovirus affecting the mental health of adolescents? Published online 8 September 2021.

Update to the original article I wrote for the Economics Observatory describing what we have been learning on the topic through the pandemic.

Economics Observatory

The Economics of Parenting: Children and Inequality at a time of shutdown. Fraser of Allander Commentary 44, no. 2 (2020).

with Emma Congreve

Emma Congreve and I discuss what current research can tell us about the multi-facted links between childhood skill development, parental parenting opportunities, and inequality. We highlight the key factors for policy to consider in a time of both a health crises from the Covid-19 pandemic and a potential economic crises.

Available Here

The Fraser of Allander Institute Podcast.
Topic: Poverty, Educational Attainment, and Covid-19.

Hosted by Mairi Spowage and joined by Emma Congreve we discuss how the pandemic highlights a number salient issues related to inequality.

Google Podcasts

Stitcher

Statistical Packages


wildrw

A Stata package to implement the Romano Wolf p-value adjustment for multiple hypothesis testing based on a Wild cluster bootstrap. It also allows for the adjustment over specifications on the same outcome but different model covariates and across a binary sub-grouping of the data. See the the help file included in the zip file for more details.

Stata files