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Data and Code for: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Among Ghana’s Rural Poor Is Effective Regardless of Baseline Mental Distress
No full textWe study the impact of group-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for individuals selected from the general population of poor households in rural Ghana (N=7,227). Results from 1-3 months after the program show strong impacts on mental and perceived physical health, cognitive and socioemotional skills, and economic self-perceptions. These effects hold regardless of baseline mental distress. We argue that this is because CBT can improve well-being for a general population of poor individuals through two pathways: reducing vulnerability to deteriorating mental health, and directly increasing cognitive capacity and socioemotional skills.
This project folder contains the data and code needed to replicate the results in this paper
Replication Package for: Identity. Media and Consumer Behavior
No full textIdentity, Media and Consumer Behavior. Replication package includes all the data and the code to replicate tables and figures in the paper. This includes census data, transaction data and online surveys
Heat Risk and Resilience Assessment in the UK, 2022
No full textHeatwaves are becoming more frequent and intense, yet many countries remain inadequately prepared to manage their impacts. Existing heat risk plans and responses often fail to account for the complex interdependencies among the various causes and impact pathways of heat waves.
Effective planning requires a system-level understanding of these interdependencies to identify strategic entry points for action. This research employs a participatory system mapping approach to explore the interconnections among causes, impacts, and response actions during the UK heatwave events of summer 2022. Cognitive maps were developed shortly after the events, incorporating input from 38 stakeholders across sectors involved in the heatwave response. These maps informed a forensic disaster analysis designed to provide a holistic understanding of the heatwave’s causes, impacts, and adaptation measures.
By analysing the interdependencies among these factors, we identified cascading effects and amplifiers that significantly intensified heat risk in the UK. Notably, we find that the primary heatwave impacts were often indirect, emerging or worsening due to cascading effects such as wildfires, drought, transportation disruptions, and the overburdening of first responders. In many cases, adaptation measures were reactive, addressing isolated, short-term impacts, while proactive, system-level approaches tackling interconnected impacts and root causes—such as vulnerable buildings, at-risk populations, and behavioural barriers—were largely absent. Additionally, we found notable variations in heat risk perceptions among groups. While individual sectors displayed a limited understanding of the broader heat risk system, a system-level perspective emerged through the aggregation of cognitive maps. The implications for adaptation research and policy are discussed
Replication Data for "Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views"
No full textThe files provided within this .zip file are meant to reproduce the tables and figures included in the article "Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views" by Diane Bolet and Florian Foos in the British Journal of Political Science
Replication package for: "Judge Dread: Court severity, repossession risk and demand in mortgage and housing markets."
No full textReplication pacage for: Montebruno, P., Silva, O., & Szumilo, N. (2021). Judge Dread: court severity, repossession risk and demand in mortgage and housing markets
Directory of Migration Research Institutions
No full textThe Directory of Migration Research Institutions (DMRI) offers a comprehensive mapping of specialised institutes that concentrate resources on conducting migration-focused research and training scholars, covering the period from 1945 to 2024.
csv dataset, pdf and xml codebook in DDI format
Oral Histories with Gypsy and Traveller Community Members and Prisoners, Professional Interviews, and Crime Survey Data from the ESRC Project 'Gypsy and Traveller Experiences of Crime and Justice Since the 1960s', 2020-2023
No full textThe Realities Checked Study provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of the crime and criminal justice experiences of Gypsies and Travellers in England since the 1960s. Motivated by the need to challenge and critique popular stereotypes that portray Gypsies and Travellers as inherently criminal, the study seeks to provide a nuanced understanding of the community’s experiences with crime and the criminal justice system. The study’s primary aims were to examine: Gypsies’ and Travellers’ direct and vicarious perceptions of criminal victimisation, hate crimes, and offending; the role of perceived racism and discrimination in shaping offending behaviour and experiences with criminal justice; the impact of criminalisation, policing, punishment, and imprisonment on individuals and communities; and the rationales behind professional engagement with Gypsies and Travellers in the areas of crime, justice, and social policy.
Conducted between October 2020 and June 2023, this dataset employs a mixed-methods approach, including a crime survey of 400 participants of Gypsy and Traveller heritage, 40 oral histories with Gypsy and Traveller community members, 27 oral histories with Gypsy and Traveller prisoners, and interviews with 54 professionals working with Gypsy and Traveller communities. Research took place across England, including Leeds, Norfolk, the South-East (London, Sussex, and Surrey), Devon, and Cornwall. Participants included Gypsies and Travellers living roadside, on sites, on private plots, and in bricks-and-mortar housing. The crime survey focused on gathering data about the frequency of discrimination, racism, and crime experienced by Gypsies and Travellers. The oral histories explored participants’ life stories, including childhood, young adulthood, and experiences with crime. Professional interviews examined the work of professionals and organisations engaging with Gypsies and Travellers in relation to crime and criminal justice
Data and Code for: Access to Justice and Social Protection
No full textGovernments in developing countries are expanding social protection policies, yet coverage remains imperfect. This paper explores how the justice system influences coverage and the consequences of unequal access to justice for targeting. Using administrative microdata from Brazil, we document how two distinct groups – displaced workers and the elderly poor – resort to the courts to secure social protection. Using the justice system for this purpose correlates with key individual characteristics—notably income and geographical distance from courts—suggesting that barriers to accessing justice influence policy targeting
Essays in applied microeconomics
Get PDFThis thesis investigates how significant external shocks-namely digital disruption, immigration, and international sanctions-affect labour markets, shape firm dynamics, and ultimately alter political landscapes. Employing different empirical strategies, including quasi-experimental methods, machine learning, and text-based computational analyses, it sheds light on the multifaceted ways in which these shocks reverberate throughout economies and societies. The first chapter, Digital Disruption and Entrepreneurial Opportunities, is based on my job market paper. It explores how online food delivery platforms such as UberEats and Deliveroo have transformed the UK restaurant industry. By compiling a unique dataset and leveraging a staggered rollout of platform entry, this study uses a dynamic difference-in-differences approach to identify causal effects. The findings demonstrate that digital platforms reduce traditional barriers to entry, facilitating a 35% growth in restaurant numbers-predominantly independent and minority-owned enterprises-and broadening the diversity of cuisines offered. This chapter underscores how digital technologies, rather than always favoring large incumbents, can also create inclusive pathways for smaller, diverse entrepreneurs to thrive. The second chapter, Understanding Multi-Layered Sanctions: A Firm-Level Analysis, investigates how Iranian firms adapt to complex sanctions regimes. By applying computational linguistics to corporate transcripts, the study constructs a firm-level measure of sanctions exposure, revealing that sanctions not only harm politically connected firms, but also more extensively burden non-connected firms given their larger market presence. The analysis finds that heightened sanction exposure depresses firm valuations, sales, and investment, driven predominantly by lost export opportunities and higher import costs. These results challenge the notion of “smart” sanctions, highlighting the broad and often unintended consequences for the wider economy. The third chapter, Immigration and Political Realignment, examines the influx of migrants following the EU’s 2004 enlargement and its implications for the UK’s political fabric. Through a shift-share instrumental variable design that exploits industry-level migration flows and regional employment structures, the chapter shows that heightened immigration exposure contributes to greater support for right-wing, anti-immigration parties and the 2016 Brexit Leave vote, at the expense of traditional Labour support. Although immigration bolsters local economies by increasing activity and employment, cultural and identity-based considerations overshadow economic benefits, propelling a shift in voter alignment and political discourse
Essays in applied labour economics
Get PDFThis thesis consists of four main chapters that focus on the themes of occupational choice, wage gaps, and networks. Chapter 1 assesses the impact of financial incentives on the recruitment and retention of trainee teachers. Using a panel of UK teachers, I exploit policy-induced variation in the bursary levels offered across years, subjects, and the trainee’s undergraduate classification. Larger bursaries increase both trainee recruitment and teacher cohort size three years post-training. However, the probability of becoming a teacher post-training also falls, which is driven by unobservable selection. Chapter 2 explores the heterogeneity of teacher wage gaps in England. I assess the comparability of teacher wages across sources and explore the robustness of estimated wage gaps for state-funded school teachers. I find substantial variation in wage gaps depending on the data, method, and counterfactual used, in addition to geographic inequality in teacher wage competitiveness. Chapter 3 describes how ethnic and migrant wage gaps vary across the life cycle. By exploiting newly linked UK administrative panel data, we estimate pay gaps on labour market entry and differences in pay growth. We find that the entry pay gaps are large, though they vary between groups. For most groups, pay gaps are largely preserved over the life cycle. For migrants, we find that the extra pay penalty is concentrated in those who arrived in the UK at a later age. Chapter 4 studies gangs in Brazil, an underexplored yet pervasive and volatile setting in organised crime. Using highly detailed information from intelligence, occurrence data, and prison records, we construct a network of gang affiliation and detect gang clusters using Markov stability analysis. We analyse the identified clusters through different network statistics and find a strong correlation between most individual centrality measures, while intercentrality highlights that some “key players” may have been missed in official hierarchical classifications