March Round Up

International Women’s Day is marked in March bringing attention to issues of gender inequality. Our school is proud of the incredible research conducted here, to improve the lives of women globally, much of it carried out by amazing women economists, blazing a trail. We celebrate this in our March News RoundUp. 

For richer, for poorer?

• Why does daddy earn more than mummy? Dr Amanda Gosling’s research on The Motherhood Penalty got the conversation going on from the Guardian to GB News to the House of Lords. Join in here.
• Professor Zak Wahhaj investigates how marriage is linked to economic agency in the world. Watch here, no strings attached.

Happiness Economics

• The cost of your diet? Dr Adelina Gschwandtner talks about the rise of obesity in the western world. More here. 
• Good mental health makes you richer than any currency can. Economics Student Shivali Raichura set up Kent Mind Society.

Running hot and cold.

• Professor Irma Clots (along with Dr Amrit Amirapu) was awarded a prestigious IZA IRECC award for a paper providing evidence between extreme weather and voter turn-out in low income countries.
• Guardez l’eau. Dr Bansi Malde and Dr Zak Wahhaj have been examining the increase in adoption of safe toilets in rural India. Be privy to the full story.