My research explores how regional economies evolve, with a particular eye on the retail and hospitality sectors, which tend to pay lower wages. The sorts of questions I explore involve the dynamic interplay of local industrial composition, labor market conditions, housing prices, migration and other demographic changes, and government intervention (such as regulation, taxation, and social welfare policies).
I primarily work with large micro-data sets to conduct applied econometric analyses, and recent years have also seen me teaching economics at four world-class universities, working as an economist in the British Civil Service, contributing to a publication for This American Life, and working on a wide variety of research projects. I am currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of California, Davis.
I’m also a big fan of back-country hiking on beautiful and challenging trails, playing frisbee golf, and tasting peaty single malts.
A few book recommendations:
A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry
Catch 22, by Joseph Heller
Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs
Triumph of the City, by Ed Glaeser
Email: jcwiltshire@ucdavis.edu