LEANDRO CARVALHO

"Education Reduces Dementia Incidence and Mitigates Genetic Risk.” 2026. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(43)  (with Patrick Turley, Sneha Nimmagadda, Kenneth Langa, and Silvia H. Barcellos).

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“The Decision-Makers We Become: Early Education and The Development of Children’s Decision-Making.” 2026. Journal of Development Economics 179 (with Joana Cardim, Pedro Carneiro, and Damien de Walque).

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“Psychological Barriers to Participation in the Labor Market: Evidence from Rural Ghana.” 2026. Journal of Development Economics 181 (with Damien de Walque, Crick Lund, Heather Schofield, Vincent Somville, and Jingyao Wei).

"Genetics and Socioeconomic Status: Some Preliminary Evidence on Mechanisms." 2025.  Journal of Political Economy Micro 3(3)

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"Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers." 2024. Journal of Political Economy 132(9) (with Arna Olafsson and Dan Silverman).

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"Complexity and Sophistication." 2024. Journal of Political Economy Micro 2(1) (with Dan Silverman).

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"Distributional Effects of Education on Health." 2023. Journal of Human Resources 58(4) (with Silvia H. Barcellos and Patrick Turley).

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"Education, Decision-Making, and Economic Rationality." 2019. The Review of Economics and Statistics 101(3) (with James Banks and Francisco Perez-Arce).

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"Education can Reduce Health Differences Related to Genetic Risk of Obesity." 2018. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(42) (with Silvia H. Barcellos and Patrick Turley).

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"Poverty and Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Changes in Financial Resources at Payday." 2016. American Economic Review 106(2) (with Stephan Meier and Stephanie W. Wang).

 

“The Effect of Saving on Risk Attitudes and Intertemporal Choices.” 2016. Journal of Development Economics 120 (with Silvia Prina and Justin Sydnor).

 

“Living on the Edge: Youth Entry, Career and Exit in Drug-Selling Gangs.” 2016. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 121 (with Rodrigo R. Soares).

 

“Financial Education Interventions Targeting Immigrants and Children of Immigrants: Results from a Randomized Control Trial.” 2016. Journal of Consumer Affairs 50(2) (with Silvia H. Barcellos, James P. Smith, and Joanne Yoong).

 

“Child Gender and Parental Investments in India: Are Boys and Girls Treated Differently?” 2014. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 6(1) (with Silvia H. Barcellos and Adriana Lleras-Muney).

 

“Childhood Circumstances and the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status.” 2012. Demography 49(3).

“A Chip Off the Old Block? Genetics and The Intergenerational Transmission of SES” (with Marina Aguiar, Sjoerd van Alten, Silvia H. Barcellos, and Titus Galama)

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"The Effect of Education on the Relationship between Genetics, Early-Life Disadvantages, and Later-Life SES" (with Silvia H. Barcellos and Patrick Turley)​​

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“Do Children’s Genetic Differences Change Parents’ Economic Outcomes? Insights from Norway” (with Silvia H. Barcellos, Rosa Cheesman, Joakim Ebeltoft, Espen Eilertsen, Torkild Lyngstad, Patrick Turley, and Eivind Ystrøm)​