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"Distributional Effects of Education on Health" (with Silvia H. Barcellos and Patrick Turley), Forthcoming in the Journal of Human Resources
"Education, Decision-Making, and Economic Rationality." 2019. The Review of Economics and Statistics 101(3) (with James Banks and Francisco Perez-Arce).
"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).
"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).
"Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers" (with Arna Olafsson and Dan Silverman), Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Political Economy
"Genetics, Economic Choices, and Economic Status"
"The Effect of Education on the Relationship between Genetics, Early-Life Disadvantages, and Later-Life SES" (with Silvia H. Barcellos and Patrick Turley)
"Complexity and Sophistication" (with Dan Silverman), Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Political Economy Micro.
“Early Education, Preferences, and Decision-Making Abilities” (with Joana Cardim, Pedro Carneiro, and Damien de Walque)
Leandro.Carvalho@usc.edu