Professor at University of Cambridge (as of October 2022)
Assistant Professor at University of Cambridge (2020 - 2022)
Fellow at Trinity College Cambridge (since 2020)
Associate Editor at Economic Journal (since 2019)
CEPR Affiliate (since 2021)
HCEO Member (since 2022)
Research fields: Labor and Political Economy
Bio:
As of October 2022 I will be a Professor at the University of Cambridge. Currently I am an Assistant Professor, a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, and a Research Affiliate at CEPR and HCEO. I work with complex datasets and applied methodologies, including machine learning and structural modelling. I have published in top Economics and Political Science journals, such as American Political Science Review, Journal of European Economic Association, and Journal of Public Economics. My work has been featured widely across the media including The Guardian, Washington Post, the Economist, the BBC, FAZ, and Der Spiegel. I am listed amongst the top 1% of Economists in terms of research output in the last ten years.
Conflict Forecast
We have developed a method that forecasts fatalities from outbreaks of armed political violence up to a year in advance. We use a combination of unsupervised and supervised machine learning to analyze more than 5 million news articles. The webpage illustrates how we do this visually. Using out method we have recently won the ViEWS conflict prediction competition.
We will update our page https://conflictforecast.org/ on a monthly basis to provide policymakers and researchers with quantitative armed conflict risk benchmarks. Our goal is to predict subtle outbreak risks in countries that don't have a recent conflict history which should, so we hope, help preventive efforts that don't rely on armed interventions.
Press coverage: La Vanguardia
Podcast: NOVAFRICA
Recent presentation at Early Warning /Early Action Workshop by CIC at NYU
Predicted battle deaths over the next 12 months
Covid Inequality Project
We have collected data using multiple survey waves across countries and are finding that the outbreak of COVID-19 is having a large and unequal impact on workers. Please find details about our work here: covidinequalityproject.com
Press coverage: Telegraph,Independendent, Mirage News, The Guardian, BBC Newsnight, voxeu.org, Wired, The Times, Washington Post, ... click here for more
Presentations for a broader audience: Mainz (in German)
Contact:
Faculty of Economics
Austin Robinson Building, Sidgwick Ave
Cambridge CB3 9DD, United Kingdom
Email: cr542 [a t] cam.ac.uk
Phone: +44 1223 335200