In response to the news of an impending world food shortage, Dr Amrit Amirapu, an economics expert at Kent, explained what this meant. He said: … Read more
Category: Research
Covid and Social Distancing with a Heterogenous Population
Discussion paper KDPE 2002 by Miltiadis Makris (University of Kent), April 2020. Abstract Motivated by the current coronavirus epidemic, we analyse a SIR model of … Read more
Can Child Marriage Law Change Attitudes and Behaviour? Experimental Evidence from an Information Intervention in Bangladesh
Discussion paper KDPE 2001 by Amrit Amirapu (University of Kent), M Niaz Asadullah (University of Malaya) and Zaki Wahhaj (University of Kent), March 2020. Non-technical … Read more
Kent Economists lend their expertise to parliament during the Covid crisis
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
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
The Rise of Services and Balanced Growth in Theory and Data
A paper by Professor Miguel leon-Ledesma (University of Kent) with Alessio Moro (University of Cagliari) entitled ‘The Rise of Services and Balanced Growth in Theory … 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
Rural Policies and Employment. TransAtlantic Experiences
A new title edited by Professor Sophia Davidova together with Kenneth J Thomson (University of Aberdeen) and Ashok K Mishra (Morrison School of Agribusiness, USA) … 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