The School of Economics is hosting a workshop, sponsored by the Royal Economic Society, on Microeconomic Approaches to Development Economics: Organisations, Institutions and the Mind. … Read more
Category: Micro
Second Kent Workshop on Networks in Economics
The second Kent Workshop on Networks in Economics was held at the University of Kent on Friday 12 October 2018. This half-day workshop brought together … Read more
Technology key to making food origin labels useful
Any move to force food producers to provide information on the origin of ingredients in products will require the use of technology to help consumers … Read more
Food and Consumers: Current Issues and Future Directions
A food and consumers research forum was held at the University of Kent on Friday 6th April, the same day in which the UK’s so … Read more
Research grant for study on marketing agricultural insurance through urban migrants
The School of Economics will participate in a major study, funded by the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), on marketing formal insurance to smallholder … Read more
Workshop on production function estimation
Drs Olena Nizalova and Ilhan Guner held a workshop for staff and research students on production function estimation techniques on 29 March 2018. The workshop … Read more
Integration of humanitarian migrants into the host country labour market: evidence from Australia
The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies has featured a research paper by Dr Matloob Piracha. The paper entitled ‘Integration of humanitarian migrants into the … Read more
Labour scarcity and labour coercion: Serfdom in Bohemia
A new blog was published yesterday in Vox EU by Dr Alex Klein, Senior Lecturer and Sheilagh Ogilvie, Professor of Economic History at the University … Read more
Improving drinking water quality in South Korea: A choice experiment
by Adelina Gschwandtner, University of Kent; Cheul Jang, Korea Water; and Richard McManus, Canterbury Christ Church University. Discussion paper KDPE 1720, December 2017. Non-technical summary: … Read more
Aggregation in networks
by Nizar Allouch, discussion paper KDPE 1718, December 2017. Non-technical summary: Understanding, and making sense of, large economic networks is an increasingly important problem from … Read more