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