Category: Research

Can the registration of adolescent girls in developing countries be accelerated disrupting child marriage? Dr Zaki Wahhaj at the School of Economics, together with Dr … Read more

This year the School of Economics at the University of Kent will be awarding a number of doctoral scholarships for outstanding PhD students. The scholarship … Read more

Perceptions that organic foods are higher quality and more environmentally friendly drive shoppers’ decisions to buy to a greater extent than animal welfare concerns, despite … Read more

Discussion paper KDPE 1910 by Nicholas Crafts (University of Sussex) and Alexander Klein (University of Kent), December 2019. Non-technical summary It is well-known that patterns … Read more

This study by Adelina Gschwandtner, Lecturer at the School of Economics, and Michael Burton (University of Western Australia) uses a large, representative sample in order … Read more

Our new building is named after our eminent colleague, Charles Kennedy. He was appointed the first Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Kent … Read more

Research by the School’s Dr Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon and Markus Bindemann was cited in an article published on 30 October in Newtral, a … Read more

Anthony Savagar, Lecturer in Macroeconomics (Principal Investigator) and Miguel Leon-Ledesma, Professor of Economics, were granted an ESRC Research Award in September 2018 for £200,000 to … Read more

What can we learn from Australia and New Zealand about agricultural policy reform after Brexit? This is an excerpt from an article by Professor Iain Fraser … Read more

This year is the 40th anniversary of the publication of Tony Thirlwall’s influential paper ‘The Balance of Payments Constraint as an Explanation of International Growth … Read more