PhD Supervision

I am currently interested in supervising doctoral students in the following areas:

• Topics in consumption and saving behaviour, household finance and financial security. 

• The design and analysis of household surveys, and the integration of surveys and "natural occurring" data,

• Topics in economic statistics and economic measurement,

• Policy evaluation.

I was the primary (or co-primary) supervisor for the following PhD students (with current affiliation in italics):

1. Vincent Hildebrand, York University, Canada, 2001. Associate Professor, York University, Canada.

2. Steven Kennedy, Australian National University, 2001. Now a senior civil servant in Australia.

3. Yuri Ostrovsky, York University, Canada, 2003. Statistics Canada.

4. Sung-Hee Jeon, York University, Canada, 2003. Statistics Canada.

5. Matthew Brzozowski, McMaster University, 2005. Associate Professor, York University, Canada.

6. Linday Tedds, McMaster University, 2005. Associate Professor, University of Victoria, Canada.

7. Yuqian Lu, McMaster University, 2005. Statistics Canada.

8. Nazish Ahmad, McMaster University, 2006. Employment and Social Development Canada. 

9. Kadir Atalay, McMaster University, 2009. Professor, Sydney University.

10. Hayley Fisher, University of Cambridge, 2011. Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Sydney University.

11. Paul Baker, University of Cambridge, 2014. Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Bath.

12. Andrea Geraci, University of Essex, 2017. Assistant Professor, University of Pavia.

13. Federico Zilio, University of Essex, 2018. Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute, University of Melbourne.

14. Stavros Poupakis, University of Essex, 2018. Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Institute for Global Health, University College London.

15. Ipek Mumcu, University of Essex, 2019, Lecturer, University of Exeter. 

16. Georges Poquillon, University of Essex, 2019, Field Coordinator, World Bank. 

17. Flavia Cavallini, European University Institute, 2022. Postdoctoral Researcher, Royal Holloway University of London. 

In addition, I was a second supervisor or committee member for: Yiping Tseng, Australian National University, 1999; Hai Zhong, McMaster University, 2006; Simo Goshev, McMaster University, 2008; Justin Smith, McMaster University, 2008; Cath Sleeman, University of Cambridge, 2014; Nergis Ziam, Koç University, 2015; Serhat Ugurlu, Norwegian School of Economics, 2018; Nadine Geiger, University of Munich, 2018; Chiara Serra, EUI, 2021, Annika Bacher, EUI, 2022, Max Bres, EUI, 2023, Thomas Walsh, EUI, 2023, Tuuli Tähtinen, EUI, 2023, Nicole Stoelinga, EUI, 2023, Anna Abate Bessomo, EUI, 2023. Pietro Panizza, EUI, 2024.