Damian-Clarke | Business School | University of Exeter

Prof Damian Clarke

Associate Professor of Economics

D.C.Clarke2@exeter.ac.uk

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Xfi Building, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4ST, UK

Overview

Damian Clarke is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Exeter, and from 2023. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Economics and The University of Chile, where he maintains an appointment. He is also a Research Fellow at IZA, and affilatied with the Millennium Institute for Research in Market Imperfections and Public Policy, the Essex Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, CAGE Warwick, the Instituto de Estudos para Políticas de Saúde Brazil, and the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford

Damian's research is centred around maternal and child health, and family fertility decisions. In particular he studies the impact of public programs on maternal mortality and morbidity, early life health outcomes for children, and the determinants of parental investment in children. He is also interested in applied microeconometrics, and is an author of a number of open-source software routines for microeconometric methods.

Damian received his DPhil in Economics at the University of Oxford in 2016, and an MSc in Economics for Development at Oxford in 2012. He has provided policy inputs or background papers for a number of international organisations including the World Bank, UNESCO, UNU-WIDER, CAF Development Bank, and the Chilean Ministry of Education.

Research

Research interests

Labour economics
Health, demographic and family economics
Microeconometrics

Damian’s work on labour economics has covered themes such as human capital investment and labour supply, and been published in journal such as the Journal of the European Economics Association and the Review of Economics and Statistics. His work on health, demographic and family economics covers themes including early life health, maternal health and domestic violence, and has been published in journals such as The Economic Journal Demography, JEEA, and the Journal of Health Economics. He has a range of computational economics papers available in the Stata Journal and on open source platforms.

Current research interests include maternal and child health, domestic violence, health spending, contraceptive availability, and microeconometric methods.

Publications

Books

Adams A, Clarke D, Quinn S (2016). Microeconometrics and MATLAB: an Introduction. Abstract.

Journal articles

Clarke D, Bhalotra S, Larroulet P, Brito E, Pino F (In Press). Dynamic Impacts of Lockdown on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Multiple Policy Shifts in Chile. The Review of Economics and Statistics Abstract.

Clarke D, Cortés Méndez G, Vergara Sepúlveda D (In Press). Growing Together: Assessing Equity and Efficiency in an Early-Life Health Program in Chile. IZA Discussion Paper(11847).

Clarke D, Schythe K (In Press). Implementing the Panel Event Study. IZA Discussion Paper(13524).

Clarke D (In Press). The Economics of Abortion Policy. IZA Discussion Paper(16395).

Bhalotra S, Clarke D, Gomes JF, Venkataramani A (2023). Maternal Mortality and Women’s Political Power. Journal of the European Economic Association, 21(5), 2172-2208.

Clarke D, Jaña ML, Pailañir D (2023). The use of quantile methods in economic history. Historical Methods a Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 56(2), 115-132.

Llorca-Jana M, Clarke D, Araya-Valenzuela R, Navarrete-Montalvo J (2022). Adult Female Height and the Gender Gap in Chile, 1860s-1990s. JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY, 53(2), 289-318. Author URL.

Rivero-Cantillano R, Llorca-Jana M, Clarke D, Rivas J, Quezada D, Allende M (2022). Interpersonal Violence in Chile, c. 1880s-2010s: a Tale of Delayed but Successful Convergence. SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY, 46(2), 373-399. Author URL.

Clarke D, Mühlrad H (2021). Abortion laws and women's health. J Health Econ, 76 Abstract. Author URL.

Clarke D, Salinas V (2021). Access to the Emergency Contraceptive Pill and Women's Reproductive Health: Evidence from Public Reform in Chile. Demography, 58(6), 2291-2314. Abstract. Author URL.

Clarke D, Mühlrad H (2021). Corrigendum to "Abortion Laws and Women's Health" [Journal of Health Economics 76(2021) 102413]. J Health Econ, 80 Author URL.

Clarke D, Oreffice S, Quintana‐Domeque C (2021). On the Value of Birth Weight. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 83(5), 1130-1159. Abstract.

Llorca-Jaña M, Rivas J, Clarke D, Traverso DB (2020). Height of Male Prisoners in Santiago de Chile during the Nitrate Era: the Penalty of being Unskilled, Illiterate, Illegitimate and Mapuche. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 17(17). Abstract. Author URL.

Llorca-Jaña M, Clarke D, Navarrete-Montalvo J, Araya-Valenzuela R, Allende M (2020). New anthropometric evidence on living standards in nineteenth-century Chile. Econ Hum Biol, 36 Abstract. Author URL.

Clarke D, Romano JP, Wolf M (2020). The Romano–Wolf multiple-hypothesis correction in Stata. The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata, 20(4), 812-843.

Clarke D (2019). A convenient omitted variable bias formula for treatment effect models. ECONOMICS LETTERS, 174, 84-88. Author URL.

Quintana-Domeque C, Oreffice S, Clarke D (2019). The Demand for Season of Birth. Journal of Applied Econometrics

Bhalotra S, Clarke D (2019). The Twin Instrument: Fertility and Human Capital Investment. Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(6), 3090-3139.

Bhalotra S, Clarke D (2019). Twin Birth and Maternal Condition. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 101(5), 853-864.

Clarke D, Matta B (2018). Practical considerations for questionable IVs. STATA JOURNAL, 18(3), 663-691. Author URL.

Bentancor A, Clarke D (2017). Assessing Plan B: the Effect of the Morning After Pill on Children and Women. The Economic Journal, 127(607), 2525-2552.

Clarke D (2017). CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS: a REVIEW OF FERTILITY AND CAUSALITY. Journal of Economic Surveys, 32(2), 518-540.

Clarke D (2014). General-to-specific modeling in Stata. STATA JOURNAL, 14(4), 895-908. Author URL.

White JM, Ng VWL, Clarke DC, Smith PD, Taylor MK, Young CG (2009). 1,2-Borotropic shifts and B-N bond cleavage reactions in molybdenum hydrotris(3-isopropylpyrazolyl)borate chemistry: Mixed-valence MoVIMo2V and pyrazole-rich oxo-MoIV complexes. INORGANICA CHIMICA ACTA, 362(12), 4570-4577. Author URL.

Chapters

Bhalotra SR, Clarke D (In Press). Analysis of Twins. In (Ed) .

Bhalotra SR, Clarke D, Walther S (In Press). Women's Careers and Family Formation. In (Ed) .

External Engagement and Impact

Research Fellow IZA
Research Associate, CAGE, Warwick
Associate Fellow, Instituto de Estudos para Políticas de Saúde (IEPS) Brazil.
Associate Researcher, Millennium Institute for Research in Market Imperfections and Public Policy.