Professor of Economics at UCL
Research Fellow at IFS, CEPR, CESIFO, IZA
Grateful for the chance to reconnect, collaborate and contribute! ✨🇮🇹
The APPG is quickly becoming a vital space for evidence-driven, cross-party progress. Energising to be part of this effort. ✨
1️⃣ #Workforce: recruitment, retention, and clarity on who delivers what from pregnancy–age 2.
2️⃣ #Integration: reduce the maze; rebuild universal, joined-up support.
📅 Submission deadline: 26 January 2026
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Double duties! Spoke at the Early Intervention Consortium + presented “Workforce Quality & Early Childhood Development at Scale” — last time before the WP drops.
Tx to Hans van Kippersluis for the invite!🙏🏼
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1️⃣0️⃣y ago we began this journey w/ our 1st @nuffieldfoundation.org grant—which brought ckfarquharson.bsky.social on board. Proud of how far we’ve come together.🚀
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The press release is probably useful: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...
👉🏻 ifs.org.uk/publications... @TheIFS
Recent coverage includes:
📰 Daily Mail: www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...
🗞️ USA TODAY: eu.usatoday.com/story/life/h...
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Tx @egolberstein.bsky.social 4 invite!🙏🏼
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Productive time interacting w/ coauthors & researchers + v engaged seminar on workforce in large-scale home visiting.
Many thanks to Abigail Wozniak for the invite & to @mdenardi.bsky.social for hosting - had a great time! 🙏
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1⃣ Economics of interventions in maternal–fetal medicine — w/ focus on preconception
2⃣ The #menopause penalty — new evidence
Loved the interdisciplinary exchanges b/w economics & medicine
Reposted by Christine Farquharson
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👶🏻👧🏼 Dai dati dell’#AssegnoUnico emergono forti disuguaglianze territoriali e sociali nella disabilità infantile in 🇮🇹.
🔗 Studio con Paola Biasi e Maria De Paola qui 👉🏻 ifs.org.uk/publications...
#Disabilità #Infanzia #Italia
📉 1️⃣st causal evidence based on large-scale admin data on how diagnosed menopause affect women’s work, wages & welfare receipt
💡More work is ongoing!
➡️ The geography of child disability is the geography of inequality — but new data can guide smarter policy.
📄 paper 👉 ifs.org.uk/publications...
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💶 Expand financial support for low-income families raising disabled children.
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🎯 Target resources and interventions in regions with higher disability rates — especially southern Italy.
🏥 Improve socio-economic and environmental conditions + strengthen healthcare quality and accessibility through specialist services & telemedicine.
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Higher disability rates appear where:
• economic vulnerability is high
• employment is low
• avoidable & infant mortality are higher
• families must travel for care (“health emigration”).
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Children from the poorest families are almost twice as likely to be disabled as those in the richest deciles — even when using pre-birth parental earnings.
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