Over the past few weeks, as the UK Parliament engages with the COVID-19 outbreak, they have experienced a surge in need for access to research … Read more
Category: Research
Celebrating groundbreaking research this International Women’s Day
“Gender rights, even when protected in law, may be stymied by the unwritten rules of patriarchy.” This International Women’s Day we celebrated the work of … Read more
Kent Bristol City Workshop in Economic Theory 2020
The Kent Bristol City Workshop in Economic Theory was held at the University of Kent on 17-18 February 2020. The event was a great success and … Read more
Estimation of a Hedonic Price Equation with instruments for Chicken Meat in the UK: Does the Organic Attribute matter?
Discussion paper KDPE 1911 by Eduardo Ribeiro, Adelina Gschwandter (University of Kent) and Cesar Revoredo-Giha (SRUC, Edinburgh, UK), December 2019. Non-technical summary The consumption of chicken … Read more
What are the implications of China’s economic slowdown on post-Brexit Britain?
Dr Jan-Philipp Dueber, Lecturer in Economics here at the School explains how we can better understand the slowdown in China’s economic growth and its implications … Read more
Expert comment – Much clarification needed within new Agriculture Bill
Professor Iain Fraser responds to the Government’s first reading of the new Agriculture Bill (16 Jan). Responding to the Government’s first reading of the new … Read more
Research Grant for Study on Birth Registration for Adolescent Girls in Bangladesh
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
PhD scholarships for September 2020 are open!
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
Decision to buy organic food motivated by quality rather than animal welfare concerns
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
The Rise and Fall of US Manufacturing: Re-Examination of Long-Run Spatial Trends
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