Dr Marco Francesconi Institute for Social and Economic Research University of Essex

Curriculum Vitae

Contact Details

Institute for Social and Economic Research University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Tel: 44 (0)1206 873534 Colchester CO4 3SQ Fax: 44 (0)1206 873151 United Kingdom E-mail: [email protected]

Current Position

Principal Research Officer, October 2000-present

Previous Positions

Chief Research Officer, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex, 1997-2000

Research Fellow, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, University of Essex, 1995-1997

Education

PhD, Economics, New York University, New York, USA, 1995 Laurea (summa cum laude), Economics, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, 1987

Other Professional Positions

Research Associate of Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London (October 2003 to date)

Research Fellow of Centre for Household Income Labour and Demographic economics (CHILD), University of Torino (July 2001 to date)

Research Fellow of Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn (October 1999 to date)

Research Fellow of Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London (October 1998 to date)

- 1 - (Updated: March 2004) Fellow of the Department of Economics, University of Essex (1996-present)

Research Grants and Awards

2004: Equal Opportunities Commission Grant on ‘Career Paths of Part-time Workers’ (with Amanda Gosling) (£15,000)

2003-2005: Anglo German Foundation Grant on ‘From Parents to Children? Socioeconomic Attainment and the Role of Family Background’ (with Stephen Jenkins, Thomas Siedler and Gert Wagner) (£70,000)

2003-2005: ESRC ‘Intergenerational Mobility in Britain: Does Sample Selection Matter?’ (with Cheti Nicoletti and John Ermisch) (£70,000)

2002-2003: Department of Health Grant on ‘Long-term Consequences of Teenage Births for Parents and their Children’ (with John Ermisch and Tim Liao) (£90,000)

2000-2001: Department for Work and Pensions Grant on ‘The Dynamics of Poverty in Britain’ (with Stephen P. Jenkins) (£69,000)

1999-2001: ESRC Grant on ‘The Future of Work’ (with Alison L. Booth and J. Frank) (£92,000)

1999-2001: British Council ‘Acciones Integradas’. Award for collaborative pilot research projects with the University of Alcala’ de Henares, Spain (with Stephen P. Jenkins, Carlos Garcia Serrano and Juan Francisco Jimeno) (£4,800)

1998-2000: Joseph Rowntree Foundation ‘Work and Family Life: the Family’ (with J. Ermisch) (£50,000)

1995-1997: Human Capital Mobility Fellowship, European Community, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social Change, University of Essex

1991-1995: Graduate Assistantship, New York University

1990-1991: Developmental Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University

1989: Research Fellowship, Ministry of Economic Planning, Rome, Italy

1988: Research Fellowship, Confcommercio, Rome, Italy

Teaching and Related Experience

1999-to date: Applied Labour Economics (Graduate, Essex)

1997-1998: Labour Economics (Undergraduate, Essex)

1992-1995: Teaching Assistant, New York University, Department of Economics (Econometrics, Economic Statistics and Microeconomics)

- 2 - (Updated: March 2004) 1991: Summer Intern, World Bank, Washington DC (June-September)

1990-1991: Research Assistant, New York University, Department of Economics

1988-1990: Teaching Assistant, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

Other Activities

2003-2006: Royal Economic Society, Member of the Conference Programme Committee

Referee for: British Journal of Industrial Relations, Bulletin of Economic Research, Economic Journal, Economica, Environment and Planning, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Population Economics, Labour, Labour Economics, Manchester School, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Oxford Economic Papers, Review of Economics of the Household, Ricerche Economiche, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Program co-organiser (with Nick Buck, Jonathan Gershuny, Stephen P. Jenkins and David Rose) of the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, 26-28 May 1999

Member of: American Economic Association, Econometric Society, European Society of Population Economists, Population Association of America, Society of Labor Economists

Publications

Monographs

The Long-term Consequences of Teenage Births for Parents and their Children (forthcoming), Department of Heath (with John Ermisch, Tim Liao, David Pevalin, Richard Berthoud, and Karen Robson)

Outcomes for Children of Poverty (2001), Department for Work and Pensions Research Report No. 158. Leeds: HMSO (with John Ermisch and David J. Pevalin)

The Effect of Parents’ Employment of Children’s Lives (2001), London: Family Policy Study Centre for the Joseph Foundation (with John Ermisch)

Journals

‘Unions and Flexible Employment in Britain and Spain: A Descriptive Note’ (forthcoming), Industrial Relations (with Carlos Garcia-Serrano) ‘The Impact of Atypical Employment on Individual Wellbeing: Evidence from a Panel of British Workers’ (forthcoming), Social Science and Medicine (with Elena Bardasi)

- 3 - (Updated: March 2004) ‘Parental Partnership and Joblessness in Childhood and Their Influence on Young People’s Outcomes’ (forthcoming) Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (with John Ermisch and David J. Pevalin)

‘Unions, Work-related Training, and Wages: Evidence for British Men’ (2003) Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 57(1), 68-91 (with Alison L. Booth and Gylfi Zoega)

‘Union Coverage and Non-Standard Work in Britain’ (2003) Oxford Economic Papers, 55(3), 383-416 (with Alison L. Booth)

‘A Sticky Floors Model of Promotion, Pay and Gender’ (2003) European Economic Review, 47(2), 99-126 (with Alison L. Booth and Jeff Frank)

‘Temporary Jobs: Stepping Stones or Dead Ends?’ (June 2002) Economic Journal, 112(480), F189-F213 (with Alison L. Booth and Jeff Frank)

‘A Joint Dynamic Model of Fertility and Work of Married Women’ (2002) Journal of Labor Economics, 20(2, part 1) 336-380

‘Determinants and Consequences of Promotions in Britain’ (2001) Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 63(3), 270-310

‘Family Structure and Children’s Achievements’ (2001), Journal of Population Economics, 14(2), 249-270 (with John Ermisch)

‘Family Matters: Impacts of Family Background on Educational Attainments’ (2001) Economica, 68, 137-156 (with John Ermisch)

‘Job Mobility in 1990s Britain: Does Gender Matter?’ (2000) Research in Labor Economics, 19, 173-189 (with Alison L. Booth)

‘The Increasing Complexity of Family Relationships: Lifetime Experience of Single Motherhood and Stepfamilies in Great Britain’ (2000) European Journal of Population, 16(3), 235-249 (with John Ermisch)

‘Cohabitation in Great Britain: Not for Long, But Here to Stay’ (2000) Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 163(2), 153-171 (with John Ermisch)

‘Educational Choice, Families and Young People’s Earnings’ (2000) Journal of Human Resources, 35(1), 143-176 (with John Ermisch)

‘Education and the Natural Rate of Unemployment’ (2000) Oxford Economic Papers, 52(1), 204-223 (with J. Michael Orszag, Edmund S. Phelps and Gylfi Zoega)

‘Labour Force Transitions Among Married Women in the United States’ (1999), Labour, 13(4), 775-796

‘Job Tenure and Job Mobility in Britain’ (1999) Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 53(1), 43-70 (with Alison L. Booth and C Garcia-Serrano)

- 4 - (Updated: March 2004) Book Chapters

‘Parental Employment and Children’s Welfare’ (forthcoming), in Tito Boeri and Daniela Del Boca (eds.) Labour Market Participation of Women and Fertility: The Effect of Social Policies. Oxford: Oxford University Press (with John Ermisch)

‘The Process of Globalization and Transitions to Adulthood in Britain’ (forthcoming), in Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Erik Klijzing (eds.) The Losers of Globalization: Becoming an Adult in Uncertain Times. London: Routledge (with Katrin Golsch)

‘Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?’ (forthcoming), in Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Paolo Mongelli, and Julian Morgan (eds.) Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (with Alison L. Booth and Jeff Frank)

‘Intergenerational Mobility in Britain: New Evidence from the BHPS’ (forthcoming), in Miles Corak (ed.) Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (with John Ermisch)

‘Family Structure and Children’s Achievements’ (2003), in Klaus F. Zimmermann and Michael Vogler (eds.) Family, Household and Work, pp. 151-172 (with John Ermisch). Berlin: Springer [reprinted from the article published in the Journal of Population Economics, (2001)]

‘Patterns of Household and Family Formation’ (2000), in Richard Berthoud and Jonathan Gershuny (eds) Seven Years in the Lives of British Families, pp 21-44 (with John Ermisch). Bristol: The Policy Press

Papers Under Review

‘Oligopsony, Institutions and the Efficiency of General Training’ (August 2002) (with Alison L. Booth and Gylfi Zoega)

‘The Material Returns to Partnership: The Effects of Educational Matching on Labour Market Outcomes and Gender Equality’(November 2002), Working Papers of the Institute for Social and Economic Research, Paper 2002-23. Colchester: University of Essex (with Malcolm Brynin)

‘Intergenerational Social Mobility and Assortative Mating in Britain’ (May 2002), Working Papers of the Institute for Social and Economic Research, Paper 2002-06. Colchester: University of Essex (with John Ermisch)

‘The Effect of Parents’ Employment on Children’s Educational Attainment’ (October 2002), Working Papers of Institute for Social and Economic Research, Paper 2002-21. Colchester: University of Essex (with John Ermisch)

‘An Evaluation of the Childhood Family Structure Measures from the Sixth Wave of the British Household Panel Survey’ (November 2002), Working Papers of Institute for Social and Economic Research, Paper 2002-25. Colchester: University of Essex

- 5 - (Updated: March 2004) ‘An Economic Model of Child Custody’ (August 2003), Working Papers of Institute for Social and Economic Research, Paper 2003-22. Colchester: University of Essex (with Abhinay Muthoo) ‘Adult Outcomes for Children of Teenage Mothers’ (January 2004)

Other Publications

‘Temporary Employment in Britain’ (2002), in Maurizio Curtarelli (ed.) La Valutazione delle Politiche per il Lavoro, pp 53-63. Milano: Franco Angeli (in Italian)

‘Cohabitation and Divorce in Great Britain: What is the Future of the Family?’ (2000), Aggiornamenti Sociali, 51(5), 417-430 (in Italian)

‘Mother’s Employment, Lone Motherhood and Children’s Achievements as Young Adults’ (1998). Report to the Department of Social Security. Working Papers of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social Change, Paper 98-9. Colchester: University of Essex (with John Ermisch)

‘Strategic Competition and Efficient Supply of Trade Services with Uncertain Demand: A Welfare Analysis’ (1993), Economia Politica, 10(1), 35-57 (in Italian)

‘Service Quality, Market Imperfection, and Intervention’ (1992), International Review of Economics and Business, 39(2), 107-124

‘Econometric Issues and Estimation Methods’ (1992), in Carlo Secchi (ed.) Metodologie di Valutazione dell'Impatto Turistico di un Attraversamento Stabile, Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane (in Italian)

‘Firm Behaviour and Public Supply of Export Services’ (1992), Commercio, 45, 107-126 (in Italian)

‘Public Supply of Trade Services and the Reputation Effect of the Firm’ (1991), Giornale degli Economisti ed Annali di Economia, 50(7/8), 373-398 (in Italian)

‘Consumer Behaviour and Demand for Services: Theory and Evidence’ (1990), in Carlo Secchi (ed.), L'Internazionalizzazione dei Servizi e l'Economia Italiana: Problemi Analitici e Tendenze Evolutive, Milano: Franco Angeli (in Italian)

- 6 - (Updated: March 2004) Work in Progress

‘The Consequences of ‘In-Work’ Benefit Reform in Britain: New Evidence from Panel Data’ (with Wilbert van der Klaauw)

‘Career Paths of Part-time Workers’ (with Amanda Gosling) [funded by the EOC]

‘Family Decisions, Dynamic Bargaining and Incomplete Contracts’ (with Abhinay Muthoo)

‘Intergenerational Mobility and Selection Issues’ (with Cheti Nicoletti) [funded by the ESRC]

‘From Parents to Children? Socioeconomic Attainment and the Role of Family Background’ (with Stephen Jenkins and Thomas Siedler) [funded by the Anglo-German Foundation]

‘Welfare Reforms and Female Labour Market Behaviour: Evaluation with a Dynamic- Programming Model’ (with Wilbert van der Klaauw)

‘Changes in Hours and Jobs in the Context of Labour Market Policy Reforms’ (with Richard Blundell)

‘The Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Italy’ (with Marco Valentini)

‘Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, Parental Inputs and Birth Weight’

‘Assortative Mating in Britain: Trends and Processes’ (with Malcolm Brynin)

‘Female Labour Supply and Gender Role Attitudes’ (with Alison L. Booth)

‘Why Do Young Men Marry Older Women?’ (with Melvyn Coles)

‘Pupil Performance, Schools and Parental Resources’ (with Steve Machin)

- 7 - (Updated: March 2004) Media Coverage

2003

The Guardian "Working mothers 'bad for children'" by John BBC London Radio (14 November) Essex FM (14 November) Class (Italian magazine) "Sposala, ma intelligente" by Raffaella Beltrami (September, No. 209) Carvel (14 November) The Economist "Wedding costs: for poorer" (14 June 2003) Society Guardian "All in a day's work" by Ivor Gaber (26 March 2003) The Guardian "The inside track: Gender pay gap" by Bill Saunders (24 February) Personnel Today "Guru's lurve-in failed to rank social standing" (18 February) Sunday Times "Finding love in high places" by Gareth Huw Davies (16 February) BBC World Service Radio interview in "Every woman" (13 February) Financial Times "A capital idea for finding a mate" by Lucy Kellaway (10 February) RTL (Italian radio network) Interview in Password (10 February) Dominion Post (New Zealand) "Smart women good for men" Alexandra Frean (8 February) The Scotsman "The thong: a social evil, the worst sartorial crime ever committed" by Gillian Ferguson (7 February) De Morgen (Belgium) "Slimme en ambitieuze vrouw helpt mannen vooruit" by Barbara Debusschere (7 February) La Repubblica (Italy) "La ricetta del successo é una moglie intelligente" Laura Laurenzi (7 February) The Times "How a smart woman can help a men to get ahead" by Alexandra Frean (6 February) Financial Times "He may be hunky but how's his 'human capital'?" by Anna Fifield (6 February) Daily Express "Now the men put money before love" (p. 29, 6 February) Cosmopolitan "My ex is my best friend" by Amelia Hill (January)

2002

Labour Market Trends "Temporary jobs", pp 385 (August) ITN Radio (31 July) BBC Radio Northampton (30 July) BBC Radio Newcastle (30 July) Daily Mail "Children of working mothers lag behind" by Sarah Harris (30 July) Sunday Times "Working mothers' children lag in tests" by Roger Dobson and Maurice Chittenden (28 July) Sunday Times "Toyboy Nations" by John Harlow and Jane Mulkerrins (14 July) The Observer "New Rules of engagement" by Yvonne Roberts (19 May) Financial Times "Shades of a bygone age as social networks delay move to classless society" by David Turner (18/19 May) The Times "To get ahead, get a groom" by Alexandra Frean (18 May) The Independent "The rich still marry the rich, says study" by Lorna Duckworth (18 May) The Guardian "New breed of middle class closes ranks" by David Walker (18 May) The Sun "Plumbers' kids to tap into riches" by Neil Syson (18 May) BBC on line "How to be rich, and stay rich" (18 May) Evening Standard "So it really does pay to have rich parents..." by Victoria Fletcher (17 May)

- 8 - (Updated: March 2004) Community Care "Research into practice" by Neil Thompson (14 February)

2001

Guardian Unlimited "No easy solution to education divide" by Lee Elliot Major (28 December) Sunday Times "Home truths they conceal about unmarried couples" by Melanie Philips (2 December) The Financial Times "Fixed features of a modern workforce" by Robert Taylor (11 October) BBC Radio Gloucestershire (27 September) Independent "Never mind the 'glass ceiling', women should worry about the 'sticky floor' in their office" by Lorna Duckworth (25 September) Daily Mail "Millions shun the 9-to-5 routine" by Darren Behar (25 September) Daily Mail "How the children of married parents do better in exams" by Steve Doughty (5 June) The Financial Times "The painful dilemma of kids and career" by Alison Maitland (9 April) The Guardian "Parental controls (reply to "Guilt by Association")" by John Ermisch and Marco Francesconi (16 March) The Times Educational Supplement "Working mums 'harm' offspring" (16 March) The Guardian , Editorial "Guilt by association" (15 March) The Evening Standard "Working mothers study attacked as 'from another era'" by Zoe Morris and Tim Miles (14 March) The Independent "Working mothers 'hinder children'" (14 March) The Guardian "Home rules?" by Kate Figes (14 March) BBC London Live (14 March) BBC Asian Network (14 March) LBC Breakfast (14 March) BBC Radio Leeds (14 March) The Times "Children 'fare better when a parent stays home'" by Elizabeth Judge (14 March) The Guardian "Children of working mothers 'at risk'" by John Carvel (14 March) The Financial Times "Children of working mothers 'less likely to get A-Levels'" by Jean Eaglesham (14 March) The Daily Telegraph "Working mothers' children get fewer A-levels'" by Philip Johnston (14 March) The Daily Mail "Working mothers may damage their child's prospects" by Steve Doughty (14 March) World today BBC World Service (13 March) The Times Educational Supplement "Relief for some but not mums" by Diane Spencer (9 February) The Independent "Working mothers 'affect exams'" by Mark Yates (5 February) The Telegraph, "Working mothers ‘damage children's education’" (4 February) Labour Market Trends, "Unions and the rise of the flexible job" (February)

2000

Sky Digital, Simply Money, Interview with Angela Rippon (18 December) BBC1 One o'clock News (studio interview) (22 November) The Guardian "Unwed parents twice as likely to separate" (22 November) The Independent "Children of unmarried couples ‘twice as likely to grow up in a broken home’" (22 November)

- 9 - (Updated: March 2004) The Daily Mail "Parents who cohabit are running twice the risk of breaking up" (22 November) The Times "Unwed parents twice as likely to split as married ones" (22 November) The Daily Telegraph "Marriage is best for children, says study" (22 November) The Daily Express "Unmarried couples’ children ‘do worse’" (22 November) Management Services "The changing nature of work" (July) Labour Market Trends "Temporary workers" (June) Employment Trends, Industrial Relations Services "Research reveals differences between causal and fixed-term temporary workers" (June) The Times "Tempted to temp?" (17 May) Sunday Business "Temp gap" (14 May)

1999

The Guardian "Living together 'trial by wedlock'" (11 June)

1998

The Daily Mail "The salary cinderellas" (15 August) The Daily Telegraph "Women win better jobs - for less pay" (15 August) Financial Times "Women break glass ceiling but stay stuck to wage floor" (14 August) The Guardian "I'll promote you, my dear - but forget the pay rise" (14 August) The Independent "Women Stuck on lower wages" (14 August) The Sunday Times "Children of divorce lose out on higher education" (22 March) Mail on Sunday "Broken homes 'dooming pupils to failure" (22 March) The Guardian "Are you sick and tired of being in the office?" (31 January)

1997

The Daily Mail "Why children of the live in couples are losing out" (25 June) The Guardian "Educating Rita includes her daughter, too" (17 February) The Observer "Missing facts on missing mums" (16 February)

1996

The Observer "Small is flexible as job security disappears" (24 November)

- 10 - (Updated: March 2004)