CEP | People | Piero Montebruno

Biography

Dr Piero Montebruno is a Research Economist at the Education and Skills, and Urban and Spatial Programmes of the Centre for Economic Performance at The London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a Co-Investigator of the project “COVID-19 and the impact of school closure” (funded by the Nuffield Foundation, EDO /FR-000022949).

Current areas of research include:

COVID-19 and the impact of school closure (jointly with Steve Gibbons and Sandra McNally)
Road transport improvements and Land Use Change (jointly with Steve Gibbons)
Has residential area growth caught up with population growth in England and Wales from satellite imagery processing? (jointly with Steve Gibbons)

Publications

Journal article

Households and entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851-1911

This article uses the British Business Census of Entrepreneurs (BBCE) to examine the relationship between the household and entrepreneurship in England and Wales between 1851 and 1911. The BBCE allows three kinds of entr... Read more...

Robert J Bennett, Piero Montebruno, Harry Smith and Carry van Lieshout

18 August 2021

CEP discussion papers

Judge Dread: court severity, repossession risk and demand in mortgage and housing markets

We study the impact of borrower protection on mortgage and housing demand. We focus on variation in the likelihood that a house is repossessed - conditional on the mortgage being in arrears and taken to court - coming fr... Read more...

Piero Montebruno, Olmo Silva and Nikodem Szumilo

11 May 2021

Journal article

The Population of Non-corporate Business Proprietors in England and Wales 1891–1911

This article uses population censuses to provide the first consistent counts of the population of business proprietors for 1891–1911. After appropriate adjustments for imperfect Census design the article confirms the per... Read more...

Robert J Bennett, Piero Montebruno and Harry Smith

01 December 2020

CEP discussion papers

Disrupted schooling: impacts on achievement from the Chilean school occupations

Disrupted schooling can heavily impact the amount of education pupils receive. Starting in early June of 2011 a huge social outburst of pupil protests, walk-outs, riots and school occupations called the Chilean Winter ca... Read more...

Piero Montebruno

01 June 2020

CEP Covid-19 analyses

Covid-19 school shutdowns: what will they do to our children's education?

Evidence from unexpected temporary school closures and reduced instruction time suggests school closures will reduce educational achievement, both in the short and long term. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are ... Read more...

Andrew Eyles, Stephen Gibbons and Piero Montebruno

07 May 2020

Journal article

Machine learning classification of entrepreneurs in British historical census data

This paper presents a binary classification of entrepreneurs in British historical data based on the recent availability of big data from the I-CeM dataset. The main task of the paper is to attribute an employment status... Read more...

Robert J Bennett, Piero Montebruno, Harry Smith and Carry van Lieshout

01 May 2020

Journal article

Incidence of surrogacy in the USA and Israel and implications on women’s health: a quantitative comparison

Purpose: Gestational surrogacy (GS) has been researched in multiple qualitative studies. In contrast, quantitative aspects of the practice are conspicuously understudied. The present article assesses and compares the inc... Read more...

Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Piero Montebruno

01 December 2019

Journal article

Female entrepreneurship: business, marriage and motherhood in England and Wales, 1851–1911

This article offers a new perspective on what it meant to be a business proprietor in Victorian Britain. Based on individual census records, it provides an overview of the full population of female business proprietors i... Read more...

Robert J Bennett, Piero Montebruno, Harry Smith and Carry van Lieshout

01 October 2019

Journal article

A tale of two tails: Do Power Law and Lognormal models fit firm-size distributions in the mid-Victorian era?

The paper explores the frequency and size distributions of firm-size in a novel dataset for the mid-Victorian era from a recent extraction of the England and Wales population censuses of 1851, 1861, 1871, and 1881. The p... Read more...

Robert J Bennett, Piero Montebruno, Harry Smith and Carry van Lieshout

01 June 2019

Journal article

Shifts in Agrarian entrepreneurship in mid-Victorian England and Wales

This paper provides the first full-population analysis of changes in the entrepreneurial status of farmers during the mid-nineteenth century: between being employers or sole proprietors with no workforce. Using a unique ... Read more...

Robert J Bennett, Piero Montebruno, Max Satchell, Harry Smith and Carry van Lieshout

01 June 2019

Journal article

Take me to the Centre of your Town! Using micro-geographical data to identify Town Centres

© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Ifo Institute, Munich. All rights reserved. We often talk about 'Town Centres' (TCs), but defining their location and extent is surprisingly difficu... Read more...

Paul Cheshire, Christian A. L. Hilber, Piero Montebruno and Rosa Sanchis-Guarner

01 June 2018

Journal article

Life in a slum: Understanding living conditions in Nairobi's slums across time and space

This paper overviews the role of slums in urban Africa, focusing on Nairobi. It reveals the characteristics of slums and how these have changed over time. Spatially disaggregated data show that slum areas are very dense ... Read more...

Julia Bird, Piero Montebruno and Tanner Regan

01 October 2017

SERC Discussion Papers

Using Micro-Geography Data to Identify Town-Centre Space in Great Britain

We often talk about ‘Town Centres’, but defining their location and extent is surprisingly difficult. Their boundaries are hard to pin down and intrinsically fuzzy. Nevertheless, the British government introduced very sp... Read more...

Paul Cheshire, Christian A. L. Hilber, Piero Montebruno and Rosa Sanchis-Guarner

10 May 2017