2026 Pedro Carneiro: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	43	1909	1720	224	205	170	19150

Overview

Pedro Carneiro is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has a research focus predominantly within the social sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including education, sociology and political science, safety research, economics and econometrics, and gender studies.

The scientist's research covers a variety of main topics such as:

Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Early Childhood Education and Development
School Choice and Performance
Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

Pedro Carneiro's recent papers include:

Intergenerational Mobility and the Timing of Parental Income, 2020, Journal of Political Economy
The Effect of Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment, 2020, The Economic Journal
The Impacts of a Multifaceted Prenatal Intervention on Human Capital Accumulation in Early Life, 2021, American Economic Review
The Supply of Skill and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence from a College Expansion Reform, 2022, Journal of the European Economic Association
Quantum Electrodynamics vacuum polarization solver, 2021, New Journal of Physics

In terms of frequent research collaborators, the scientist has worked extensively with:

Yiming Xia
Kjell G. Salvanes
Alex Armand
Norbert Schady
Federico Tagliati

Pedro Carneiro has published primarily in the following venues:

SSRN Electronic Journal
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
Journal of Political Economy
Journal of Development Economics
Harvard Dataverse

The scientist has also contributed to several books published by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, including:

Can Grit be Taught? Lessons from a Nationwide Field Experiment with Middle-School Students, 2021
When Promising Interventions Fail: Personalized Coaching for Teachers in a Middle-Income Country, 2022
Early Education, Preferences, and Decision-Making Abilities, 2022

Best Publications

Human Capital Policy

Pedro Carneiro;James J. Heckman

3259
Citations
Human Capital Policy

Pedro Manuel Carneiro;Pedro Manuel Carneiro;James J. Heckman

2330
Citations
The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling†

Pedro Carneiro;James J. Heckman

1746
Citations
Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College

Pedro Carneiro;Karsten T. Hansen;James Heckman

1342
Citations
Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents

Pedro Carneiro;Costas Meghir;Matthias Parey

1202
Citations
Estimating marginal returns to education

Pedro Carneiro;James J. Heckman;Edward J. Vytlacil

891
Citations
Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents

Pedro Carneiro;Costas Meghir;Matthias Parey

840
Citations
Labor market discrimination and racial differences in premarket factors

Pedro Carneiro;James Joseph "Jim" Heckman;Dimitriy V Masterov

762
Citations
Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College

Pedro Carneiro;Pedro Carneiro;Karsten T Hansen;James J Heckman

663
Citations
A Flying Start? Maternity Leave Benefits and Long-Run Outcomes of Children

Pedro Carneiro;Katrine Vellesen Løken;Kjell Gunnar Salvanes

485
Citations
Estimating distributions of treatment effects with an application to the returns to schooling and measurement of the effects of uncertainty on college choice

Pedro Carneiro;Karsten T. Hansen;James J. Heckman

479
Citations
Teacher Quality and Learning Outcomes in Kindergarten

M. Caridad Araujo;Pedro Carneiro;Yyannú Cruz-Aguayo;Norbert Schady

462
Citations
The impact of early cognitive and non-cognitive skills on later outcomes

Pedro Carneiro;Claire Crawford;Alissa Goodman

442
Citations
Labor market discrimination and racial differences in premarket factors

Pedro Carneiro;James J. Heckman;Dimitriy V. Masterov

363
Citations
2001 Lawrence R. Klein Lecture Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice

Pedro Carneiro;Karsten T. Hansen;James J. Heckman

356
Citations
Enforcement of labor regulation and firm size

Rita Almeida;Pedro Carneiro

332
Citations
Enforcement of labor regulation and informality

Rita K. Almeida;Pedro Carneiro

332
Citations
The return to firm investment in human capital

Rita Almeida;Pedro Carneiro

287
Citations
The return to firm investment in human capital

Rita Almeida;Pedro Carneiro

287
Citations
Long-Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start

Pedro Carneiro;Rita Ginja

276
Citations
Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies

Pedro Carneiro;Karsten T. Hansen;James J. Heckman

273
Citations
Trends in quality-adjusted skill premia in the United States, 1960-2000

Pedro Carneiro;Sokbae Lee

251
Citations
Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin

Pedro Carneiro;James J. Heckman;Edward Vytlacil

183
Citations
Estimating potential outcome distributions using local instrumental variables with an application to changes in college enrollment and wage inequality

Pedro Carneiro;Sokbae Lee

73
Citations
The Impact of Early Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills on Later Outcomes. CEE DP 92.

Pedro Carneiro;Claire Crawford;Alissa Goodman

26
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Heckman University of Chicago

Kjell G. Salvanes Norwegian School of Economics

Orazio Attanasio Yale University

Costas Meghir Yale University

Edward Vytlacil Yale University

Imran Rasul University College London

Michael Lokshin World Bank

Norbert Schady World Bank

Lorraine Dearden University College London

Jishnu Das Georgetown University

External Links

Personal website of Pedro Carneiro Google Scholar page

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