Professor Cheti Nicoletti
Deputy Head of Department, Research

Profile

Biography

Cheti Nicoletti (BSc Padova, MA Louvain-la-Neuve, PhD Florence) is Professor of Economics and Deputy Head of the Department of Economics for Research at the University of York. Previously she worked for ten years at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, where she continues to be a Research Associate. She is also an IZA (Institute for Study of Labor) Research Fellow and a research associate of CHILD-Collegio Carlo Alberto (Torino).  

The output from her work has been published in leading peer-reviewed international journals, including the Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and Journal of Applied Econometrics. Her research has been partly supported by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Nuffield Foundation.

Departmental roles

• Deputy Head of the Department of Economics for Research
• Co-Leader of the Applied Micro-Econometrics Cluster within the Department (AME) 
• Performance Reviewer
• Departmental Research Committee Chair 
• Member of Department Management Team

Research

Overview

Her research interests include gender stereotypes, peers’ effects, school and parental investments, children’s cognitive and socio-emotional development and mental health. She has extensive experience in working with longitudinal surveys and administrative data and in causal inference analysis.

For more details see her CV

https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/cheti-nicoletti/home/cv 

Supervision

She has supervised several PhD Students and some examples of job positions hold by of her former PhD students are 

• European Commission: Research fellow at the Joint Research Centre 
• Italian Central Bank: Deputy head of household and labor market division, within the Economics, Statistics and Research Department.
• University of Essex: Senior Research Officer, Institute for Social and Economic Research
• University of Oxford: Deputy Director and Co-Principal Investigator of Young Lives at Work, Oxford Department of International Development
• University of Southampton: Lecturer, Department of Economics
• Erasmus University Rotterdam: Postdoc Fellow
• Pro Bono Economics: Economist 
• Ontario Ministry of Finance: Economist

Publications

Selected publications

Full details of publications can be found at RePEc

• Nicoletti C., Salvanes K., Tominey E. (2023) Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills: Does Income Compensate? Journal of Labor Economics, 42(2), 389-429. 
• Copper, C., Waterman, A., Nicoletti, C., Pettinger, K., Sanders, L. & Hill, L., (2023), Educational Achievement to age 11 in Children Born at Late Preterm and Early Term Gestations, Archives of Disease in Childhood.
• Cavapozzi, D., Francesconi, M., Nicoletti, C. (2021) The Impact of Gender Role Norms on Mothers' Labor Supply, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 18: 113-134, in press.
• Nicoletti, C., & Tonei, V. (2020) Do parental time investments react to changes in child’s skills and health? European Economic Review, 103491.
• von Hinke, S., Leckie, G., Nicoletti, C. (2019) The use of instrumental variables in peer effects models, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 81(5): 1179-1191
• Nicoletti, C., Rabe, B. (2019) Sibling spillover effects in school achievement, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 34(4), 482-501
• Nicoletti C., Salvanes K., E. Tominey (2018) The family peer effect on mothers’ labour supply, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(3): 206–234
• Aina, C., Nicoletti C., (2018) The intergenerational transmission of liberal professions, Labour Economics, 51: 108–120.
• Nicoletti, C., Rabe, B. (2018) The effect of school spending on student achievement: addressing biases in value-added models, Journal of Royal Statistical Society Series A, 181(2):  487–515.
• Del Boca, D., Monfardini C. Nicoletti C. (2017) Self-investments of adolescents and their cognitive development, Journal of Labor Economics, 35 (2): 565-608.
• Auspurg, K., Iacovou, M., Nicoletti, C.  (2017) Housework share between partners: experimental evidence on gender identity. Social Science Research, 66: 118-139.
• Nandi A., and Nicoletti C. (2014) Explaining personality pay gaps in the UK, Applied Economics, 46 (26): 3131-3150.
• Longhi S., Nicoletti C., and Platt L. (2013) Explained and unexplained wage gaps across the main ethno-religious groups in Great Britain, Oxford Economic Papers, 80, 197–218.
• Nicoletti C., and Rabe B. (2013) Inequality in pupils' educational attainment: How much do family, sibling type and neighbourhood matter? Economica, 80, 318, 197-218.
• Nicoletti C., and Best N.G. (2012) Quantile regression with aggregated data, Economics Letters, 117, 2, 401-404.
• Longhi S., Nicoletti C., and Platt L., (2012) Interpreting wage gaps of disabled Men: The roles of productivity and of discrimination Southern Economic Journal, 78, 3, 931–953.
• Nicoletti C., Peracchi F., and Foliano F. (2011) Estimation of income poverty in the presence of measurement errors and missing data problems, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 29, 1, 61-72.
• Nicoletti C., and Rondinelli C. (2010) The (mis)specification of discrete time duration models with unobserved heterogeneity: A Monte Carlo Study, Journal of Econometrics, 159, 1-13.
• Nicoletti C. (2010) Poverty analysis with missing data: Alternative estimators compared, Empirical Economics, 38, 1, 1-22.
• Nicoletti C., Tanturri M.L. (2008) Differences in delaying motherhood across European countries: Empirical evidence from the ECHP, European Journal of Population, 24, 2, 157-183.
• Nicoletti C., and Ermisch J. (2007) Intergenerational earnings mobility: Changes across cohorts in Britain, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Contributions, 7, 2, 1-36.
• Francesconi M., and Nicoletti C. (2006) Intergenerational mobility and sample selection in short panels, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 21, 1265-1293.
• Nicoletti C., and Peracchi F. (2006) The effects of income imputation on microanalyses: evidence from the European Community Household Panel, Journal of Royal Statistical Society A, 169, 3, 625-1271.
• Nicoletti C. (2006) Non-response in dynamic panel data models, Journal of Econometrics, 132, 2, 461-489.
• Nicoletti C., and Peracchi F. (2005) Survey response and survey characteristics: microlevel evidence from the European Community Household Panel, Journal of Royal Statistical Society A, 168, 4, 1-19.

Teaching

Postgraduate

• Applied Microeconometrics
• MSc Dissertation
• Econometrics for Research (Method for Causal Inference)