If child marriage in India is often seen as a solution by communities not a problem, how can we begin to tackle it? Dr Zaki … Read more
Author: Grace Shore Banks
Our Economics Degree Apprentices celebrate the end of their academic year.
The Professional Economist Degree Apprenticeship team would like to congratulate our stage 1 apprentices, Jake Gilbert and Caitlin Lilley on achieving ‘Best Overall Performance’ for … Read more
Trade and volatility: Analysing the role of specialisation and diversification
Professor Miguel León-Ledesma has collaborated with Laura Puzzello and Adina Ardelean, in this VoxEU column on the complex interaction between sectoral shocks, sectoral specialisation, and geographic diversification … Read more
Early Human Capital Accumulation and Decentralization
Recent Guy Tchuente research shows the importance of local knowledge in the provision of publicly financed goods. Dr Guy Tchuente‘s research is included in a … Read more
Economics Education Day
After what seems like an eternity of teams meetings, the academic staff at the School of Economics finally managed to get together for our first … Read more
A bumper year for HSS at the Research and Innovation Prizes
It’s been an unprecedented year in the University for the Division of Human and Social Sciences in terms of Research & Innovation Prizes. The winners … Read more
Pride Month: Researching sexual minority disparities in earnings
Lucy Watson is in the last year of her undergraduate degree and chose to take the dissertation option. She blogs about her research here. ‘I … Read more
Infrastructure project in Bangladesh induced marital migration by rural-born women
New research led by Dr Zaki Wahhaj and Dr Amrit Amirapu shows how a major transport infrastructure project in Bangladesh in the 1990s induced marital … Read more
Booming entrepreneurship during the Covid-19 pandemic
Dr Anthony Savagar has collaborated with Saleem Bahaj from the Bank of England’s Research Hub and Sophie Piton who works in the Bank of England’s … Read more
The long-term impacts of refugee resettlement
During Refugee Week 2022 Rinchan Mirza, comments on how European governments integrating Ukrainian refugees into their territories need to understand the long-term impacts of refugee … Read more