Now also available as @theifs.bsky.social Working Paper 26/30, downloadable here: ifs.org.uk/publications...

Our paper on Workforce Quality in ECD at scale now also available as @rfberlin.bsky.social discussion paper! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

New VoxEU @voxeu.org column by Renata Narita on our work (w/ @rginja.bsky.social ) on Mexico’s Seguro Popular 👇 cepr.org/voxeu/column... What happens when health insurance is free—and not tied to formal jobs? Paper 👉🏻 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #HealthEconomics #UHC

Now also available as @cepr.org discussion paper 👉🏻 cepr.org/publications...

🚨 How much does the #frontline #workforce matter in #early #childhood #programmes at scale? Our new research on England’s national Family Nurse Partnership shows: a lot. 🧵👇

🚨 How much does the #frontline #workforce matter in #early #childhood #programmes at scale? Our new research on England’s national Family Nurse Partnership shows: a lot. 🧵👇

Great to see our report in the BBC coverage of the crisis in health visiting in England: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This is not just about fewer Health Visitors, but about major changes in workforce composition. Our report also gives detailed costing 👉🏻 discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

🚨 Last day to submit! Join us in beautiful Madrid this June to discuss the latest research on health and human capital👇🏻

🚨 Last day to submit! Join us in beautiful Madrid this June to discuss the latest research on health and human capital👇🏻

Menopause has real consequences for women’s health, work, and earnings. Glad to see out work on “The #Menopause #Penalty” cited in today’s New York Times Opinion piece by Gillian Goddard, which gets an important point exactly right: hormone therapy does not need to promise longevity to be worth it.

This week I spoke at the @europarl.europa.eu in Brussels about the economic dimensions of #menopause Our evidence on the #MenopausePenalty shows that the costs are real — in earnings, work, & wellbeing Menopause is biology. Its consequences are not. #EU has a real chance to lead #GenderEquality 🇪🇺

1/ 🚨 New report out on #health #visiting in England! After years of FOIs, follow-ups, cleaning, checking and reconstruction, we can finally share this work. Report: tinyurl.com/HVFOI2026 UCL story: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ma...

This week I spoke at the @europarl.europa.eu in Brussels about the economic dimensions of #menopause Our evidence on the #MenopausePenalty shows that the costs are real — in earnings, work, & wellbeing Menopause is biology. Its consequences are not. #EU has a real chance to lead #GenderEquality 🇪🇺

The last leg of my 🇯🇵 trip took me to Okinawa last week — a v different feel from mainland! Spent a great few days at the DHI Workshop @OISTedu (www.oist.jp/conference/d...) many scholars whose work I admire, some of my favourite people + great feedback on my #Menopause work🙏🏼

New in @thelancet.com ✨ 1️⃣st global framework for measuring #preconception #health: clinical & socio-economic indicators. I contributed the economic case for preconception health surveillance: W/o good measurement, prevention stays invisible sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673626001923

New in @thelancet.com ✨ 1️⃣st global framework for measuring #preconception #health: clinical & socio-economic indicators. I contributed the economic case for preconception health surveillance: W/o good measurement, prevention stays invisible sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673626001923

Closing week 1️⃣ in 🇯🇵 w/ the HIAS Health Seminar, Hitotsubashi University. V well organized and well attended. Tx++ to Ayako Honda and Kazuki Motohashi for the invitation and hosting.👘🙏🏼 Also the last presentation of our home visiting workforce quality paper before the WP release!✨

Great to see @durlauf.bsky.social (U of Chicago) @ucleconomics.bsky.social today and hear his fascinating talk on “Status Mobility in China: Past and Present”. Always stimulating to interact w/ him & to exchange ideas on social mobility, inequality, & how economic transitions shape IG opportunity.📊

Another Sunday, another race!🏃‍♀️ Landed back yesterday from a week away & went straight into some tough headwinds at Regent’s Park! 🌬️ I’m thrilled w/ the result: 🥇1st Place in Category (V45) 🏅25th Female overall (of 181) ⏱️50:22 Now recovery + planning the next race!💆‍♀️💪🏼

Thrilled to give the keynote @ 3rd Workshop on the Economics of #Health & #HumanCapital (Madrid, 18/06/2026) 🤩 Boutique format: 10 papers, plenty of discussion time — ECR submissions especially encouraged 👌🏼 ⏰ 15 April Madrid in June doesn’t hurt either ☀️😏 #HealthEconomics

TOP 3% of Females 45-49!! And TOP 5.6% of Women Overall! (See rankings in pic)💪🏼 Donation link still open to fund cancer research @cancerresearchuk.org 😗👉🏻 www.winterrun.co.uk/fundraisers/...

Sub-50. 5°C (felt like –1°C). Relentless rain. Ran the London Winter Run in 49:31 for @cancerresearchuk.org — because research doesn’t pause for bad weather. If you can, please support the science that saves lives: www.winterrun.co.uk/fundraisers/... #WinterRun #CancerResearchUK

It is that time of the year again! I am completing the London Winter Run 10k on 15th February 2026 for @cancerresearchuk.org - for the 5th time in a row 💙💪🏼 Please support my fundraising and help me reach my target to raise vital funds for Cancer Research UK. www.winterrun.co.uk/s/66033/1092... 🙏🏼

Just back from Padova —presenting “The #Menopause #Penalty”, again. Menopause isn’t “just” health: it has economic consequences. Awareness + access to treatment matter.👉🏻 ifs.org.uk/sites/defaul... #WomenMatter from preconception to post reproduction 👩‍👧‍👦➡️👩‍🦳 Thanks for the visit!

Just back from Padova —presenting “The #Menopause #Penalty”, again. Menopause isn’t “just” health: it has economic consequences. Awareness + access to treatment matter.👉🏻 ifs.org.uk/sites/defaul... #WomenMatter from preconception to post reproduction 👩‍👧‍👦➡️👩‍🦳 Thanks for the visit!

A week — and many degrees — ago ☀️ I attended #AMES2026 at NYU Abu Dhabi, where I presented work on the #menopause #penalty (w/ @rginja.bsky.social Petra Persson & Barton Willage) in a Health Shocks session. Great discussion, excellent keynotes, and lovely to see colleagues from near and far! 🌴

Back at the Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority 🇦🇪—energised by the ambition & pace of action. Great discussion on evidence-based early intervention: earlier action, sharper targeting, better long-term outcomes—and the crucial role of delivery + measurement. 🚀 #EarlyChildhood #EvidenceBasedPolicy

“The #Menopause ‘#Penalty’” now out as #CSEF Working Paper No. 770 (Jan 2026)! 📄 www.csef.it/WP/wp770.pdf First circulated in March 2024 - the topic quickly sparked discussion beyond academia. ✨ With @rginja.bsky.social, Petra Persson & @bartonwillage.com

“The #Menopause ‘#Penalty’” now out as #CSEF Working Paper No. 770 (Jan 2026)! 📄 www.csef.it/WP/wp770.pdf First circulated in March 2024 - the topic quickly sparked discussion beyond academia. ✨ With @rginja.bsky.social, Petra Persson & @bartonwillage.com

Ready for a new year with the G-Lab. 2026. Onwards! 💪🏼 🚀

Really enjoyed attending it! Tx to Alex + Tim Morris 4 organising @sriucl.bsky.social I presented on GxE in the IG transmission of human capital, using NCDS & MCS 🧬 Nancy Daza Baez presented our work (w/ Rong Hai & Fan Wang) on GxE genes in the production of BMI across childhood, on MCS data 🍎 🤸

The #G-Lab is back! ✨ I’ve been travelling non-stop this term, but the team has been hard at work. Our #MenopausePenalty paper is getting lots of attention, so we’re doubling down on #menopause, #work & #health. Meet the 2025–26 team! 👇 gabriellaconti.org/g-lab

Our #menopause #penalty paper is now available as @rfberlin.bsky.social DP!👇🏻 @rginja.bsky.social @bartonwillage.com

The ONS Research Excellence 'Impact of Analysis' Award 2025 goes to The Sure Start Evaluation Team ‪@theifs.bsky.social. Congratulations @gabriconti.bsky.social & co-authors!

🎉 Our Sure Start work takes home award 2️⃣! Very happy that our IFS research on the short- and medium-term effects of #Sure #Start on children’s outcomes has won the #Impact of Analysis #Award at the ONS #Research #Excellence #Awards 2025! 🎉 www.adruk.org/news-publica...

Italy becomes the 1️⃣ country in Europe to recognise femicide as a specific crime — Parliament voted unanimously. Proud of my country for calling gender-based violence what it is, & for taking a decisive step toward real accountability and protection. 🇮🇹✨ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Privileged to join the #APPG for #Babies - chaired w/ real drive by Maya Ellis MP, w/ Freddie van Mierlo MP, Kieran Mullan MP & Lord Simon Russell of Liverpool. The energy in the room was exceptional: cross-party, evidence-hungry, and focused on practical solutions for the first 1,001 days.💡

I am very happy to join #CSEF at University of #Naples as a #Research #Affiliate — a special homecoming to my #alma #mater: csef.it/people/gabri... 🙂 Grateful for the chance to reconnect, collaborate and contribute! ✨🇮🇹

📢 Delighted to share that I will be giving a keynote at the #Economics of #Children in a Changing World #workshop at the @cesifo.org Summer Institute in Venice (24-25 June 2026), co-organised by Janet Currie and Joachim Winter! 🇮🇹 📅 Submission deadline: 26 January 2026 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

📢 Delighted to share that I will be giving a keynote at the #Economics of #Children in a Changing World #workshop at the @cesifo.org Summer Institute in Venice (24-25 June 2026), co-organised by Janet Currie and Joachim Winter! 🇮🇹 📅 Submission deadline: 26 January 2026 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

🌟Proud that our #SureStart work has won the @smartthinking.bsky.social Best Publication Award 2025! smartthinking.org.uk/awards-list-... 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.🚀

And that’s a wrap on my 2025 work travels — final stop: Rotterdam. 🇳🇱 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!🙏🏼

🌟Proud that our #SureStart work has won the @smartthinking.bsky.social Best Publication Award 2025! smartthinking.org.uk/awards-list-... 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.🚀

Was wonderful to have you, thanks for coming!

🌟And so Delighted to see our #Menopause research continue to spark attention and debate! 👉🏻 ifs.org.uk/publications... @TheIFS Recent coverage includes: 📰 Daily Mail: www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic... 🗞️ USA TODAY: eu.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

Last Thursday in #Minneapolis, I gave a seminar at UMN School of Public Health on The #Menopause #Penalty (w/ @rginja.bsky.social P Persson & @bartonwillage.com)—showing how women’s health transitions affect economic outcomes + the benefits of menopause care. Tx @egolberstein.bsky.social 4 invite!🙏🏼

📍Back from a busy week at the #Fed’s #OIGI in #Minneapolis. 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! 🙏

1 week ago I gave 2 talks at the Renaissance Conference in Florence🇮🇹 👉 kosmas.eventsair.com/renaissance-... 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

🎉 Proud to see our #Sure #Start @theifs.bsky.social research shortlisted for the ONS Research #Excellence Awards! 🏆 Learn more: www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/what... 🗳️ We need your help! Please cast your #vote in the People’s Choice Award by Friday 31 October 2025👉🏻 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

🎉 Proud to see our #Sure #Start @theifs.bsky.social research shortlisted for the ONS Research #Excellence Awards! 🏆 Learn more: www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/what... 🗳️ We need your help! Please cast your #vote in the People’s Choice Award by Friday 31 October 2025👉🏻 forms.office.com/pages/respon...