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Welcome to my website. I am a Professor of Economics at the University of York , an affiliate of the FAIR research institute in NHH, an IZA Research Fellow and a Network Member of the Human Capital Economic Opportunities Working Group.
I am an Associate Editor at the European Economic Review, Co-Editor at the Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Associate Editor at Fiscal Studies, on the Editorial Board for the Economics Observatory and a member of the Royal Economic Society Committee.
I'm an economist interested in inequalities and human capital, often using big data combined with quasi-experimental methods.
My first area of research is families and children: I am interested in choices parents make on labour supply, health behaviours, education; how these influence child human capital and how the parents are influenced by social norms.
A second area of research is policy analysis. My research aims to understand the mental health and welfare consequences of Universal Credit, the long-run effect of youth unemployment and I have undertaken policy evaluation of public sector incentive schemes.
I received my PhD in 2010 from University College London where I spent some time at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. I worked before this as a Research Assistant in the Centre for Market and Public Organisation at the University of Bristol. In 2010 I came to the University of York and held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.