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
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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 Economics Summit 2020
The Kent Economics Summit 2020 will be the best yet! The Kent Economics Society are busy planning the second ever Economics Summit. “We are hosting … 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
The Return of Pub Quiz
We had a really bustling evening with 15 teams of staff and students taking part in our School of Economics pub quiz. We had a … Read more
Grant success for Amrit and Zaki
Congratulations to Amrit Amirapu and Zaki Wahhaj who have obtained a research grant from the UK Department of International Development’s EDI research programme to study … Read more