Elisabetta De Cao

Working papers

“Gene-Environment Effects on Female Fertility” with Nicola Barban and Marco Francesconi. October 2021. CEPR Working Paper DP16603. Submitted
- Research supported by the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant
“Child Maltreatment, Unemployment, and Safety Nets” with Daniel Brown. January 2020. Under Review
- Previous version: “The Impact of Unemployment on Child Maltreatment in the United States”. February 2018. ISER Working Paper Series, No. 2018-04.
- Media coverage: RES 2019, ITV, International Business Times, Oxford University News.

Selected work in progress

“Educational Assortative Mating and Harsh Parenting in sub-Saharan Africa” with Alberto Ciancio, Giulia La Mattina, and Luca Pesando. Work in progress
“Air Pollution and Health” with Nicola Barban, Gabriella Conti, Edward Pinchbeck, and Sefi Roth. Work in progress

Publications

“Does unemployment worsen babies’ health? A tale of siblings, maternal behaviour and selection.” with Barry McCormick and Catia Nicodemo. Journal of Health Economics. 2022, Vol. 83, 102601.
- Media coverage: RES 2018
“The effect of education on spousal education: A genetic approach” with Nicola Barban, Sonia Oreffice, and Climent Quintana-Domeque. Labour Economics. 2021, Vol. 71, 102023.
Niaz Asadullah, Elisabetta De Cao, Fathema Zahura Khatun, and Zahra Siddique “Measuring gender attitudes using list experiments”. Journal of Population Economics. 2021, Vol. 34, Pages 367-400.
De Cao Elisabetta and Giulia La Mattina “Does maternal education reduce female genital cutting?”. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings. 2019, Vol. 109, Pages 100-104. Media coverage: El Pais, LSEnews
De Cao Elisabetta and Clemens Lutz “Sensitive survey questions: Measuring attitudes regarding female genital cutting through a list experiment”. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 2018, Vol. 80, No. 5, Pages: 871–92. Media coverage: RES 2015
De Cao Elisabetta, Marloes Huis, Samson Jemaneh and Robert Lensink “Community conversations as a strategy to change harmful traditional practices against women”. Applied Economics Letters. 2017, Vol. 24, No. 2, Pages 72-74.
De Cao Elisabetta “The height production function from birth to age two”. Journal of Human Capital. 2015, Vol. 9, No. 3, Pages 329-363.
Arpino Bruno, Elisabetta De Cao and Franco Peracchi “Using panel data for partial identification of human immunodeficiency virus prevalence when infection status is missing not at random”. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society). 2014, Vol. 177, Part 3, Pages 578-606.
De Cao Elisabetta, Emilio Zagheni, Alessia Melegaro and Piero Manfredi “The relative importance of frequency of contacts and time of exposure for the spread of directly transmitted infections”. Biostatistics. 2014, Vol. 15, No. 3, Pages 470-483.
De Cao Elisabetta, Alessia Melegaro, Rogier Klok and Maarten Postma “Optimizing assessments of the epidemiological impact of pediatric immunization with PCV13 using dynamic transmission modeling”. PLoS ONE. 2014, Vol. 9, No. 4:e89415.
Mark H. Rozenbaum, Elisabetta De Cao and Maarten J. Postma “Cost-effectiveness of pertussis booster vaccination in the Netherlands”. Vaccine. 2012, Vol. 30, No. 50, Pages 7327-31.
Mark H. Rozenbaum, Elisabetta De Cao, Tjalke A. Westra and Maarten J. Postma “Dynamic models for health economic assessments of pertussis vaccines: what goes around comes around”. Expert Review of Vaccines. 2012, Vol. 11, No. 12, Pages 1415-1428.

Policy reports / Other

Elisabetta De Cao and Malte Sandner “The potential impact of the COVID-19 on child abuse and neglect: The role of childcare and unemployment” VOXEU May 2020
Stichting Gezamenlijke Evaluaties, “MFS-II Evaluations - Joint Evaluations of the Dutch Co-Financing System 2011-2015 - Country Report Ethiopia” Partos. July 2015.