The Development Economics Research Group has received an award of £9,500 from the University’s GCRF Partnership Development Fund. Five members of the Development Economics Research … Read more
Dr Christian Siegel, along with Dr Catherine Robinson from KBS, receive funding from the ONS
Christian Siegel and Catherine Robinson have recently been awarded research funding by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for a project entitled, “The role of … Read more
‘Was Domar Right? Serfdom and Factor Endowments in Bohemia’ accepted for the Econometric Society’s World Congress 2020.
Dr Alex Klein’s paper exploring causes of labour coercion in 18th century Bohemia, has been accepted for presentation at the Econometric Society’s World Congress 2020 … Read more
32% decrease in Companies House data during the Covid-19 Lockdown
Report download: Missing Firm Creation in the UK during the Covid-19 Lockdown Further technical details can be found here. MaGHiC release report ‘Missing Firm Creation … Read more
What does a world food shortage mean?
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
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
The Economics Society wins Kent Union’s Academic Society of the Year
Choosing an overall winner from a category of 12 nominated academic societies was ‘no easy task’ this year, but Kent Union revealed that the Economics … 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
William Collier awarded Senior Fellowship of Advance HE
Congratulations to Dr William Collier who has been recognised as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (now known as Advance HE). Senior Fellowship … Read more
Faculty ‘meet’ to pay tribute to Professor Peter Sinclair
Staff from the School of Economics ‘gathered’ last night on Zoom conferencing to pay tribute to the esteemed economist Peter Sinclair, who sadly passed away … Read more