Augustin de Coulon, PhD

I am a Reader (Associate Professor) in the Department of Economics of the Business School at King's College London. I am also the Chair of King's Research Degrees Examination board (RDEB).

Trained as a labour economist, my research focuses on mental health, education and immigration with a special interest in the disadvantaged. Before King's, I worked at the UCL Institute of Education (IOE), Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) and the Centre for Economic Performance (LSE).

My teaching includes Health Economics, Labour Economics and Economics of Public Management. My previous teaching experience include: Research Methods, Macroeconomics I, Microeconomics I, Economics of Social Problems, Social Policy and Industrial Economics.

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Papers and Publications:

"The Long-Term Impact of Improving Adolescents' Skills: Evidence from a Remediation Programme" (with V. Nafilyan, S. Speckesser), R&R: Economica

"The impact of depressive symptoms on cognitive function in early old age" (with V. Nafilyan, M. Avendano), 2025, American Journal of Epidemiology.

"A Tale of Two Cities: London and New York City during Covid-19" (with Marc Scott), 2024, PLoS ONE, vol. 19(9), pp. 1-17.

"Health Benefits of Reducing Aircraft Pollution" (with S. Beghelli, M. O'Mahony), 2023, Journal of Population Economics, 36(4), pp. 2581-607

"Does Longer Compulsory Schooling Affect Mental Health?" (with M. Avendano, V. Nafilyan), 2020, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 183, March, 104137

"Pane e Cioccolata: The Impact of Native Attitudes on Return Migration" (with D. Radu, M. Steinhardt), 2016, Review of International Economics, vol. 24(2), pp, 253-281

"Where Do Immigrants Retire To?", 2016, IZA World of Labor, 297 , pp. 1-10

"Minimum Wage", 2015, Wiley Encyclopedia of Management (C. Cooper ed.), 3rd Edition, volume 5 HRM, D. Guest & D. Needle eds.

"A Longitudinal Analysis of UK Second-Generation Disadvantaged Immigrants" (with O. Marcenaro, A. Vignoles), 2013, Education Economics, vol. 21(2), pp. 105-134

"The Value of Basic Skills in the British Labour Market" (with M. Meunier, A. Vignoles, O. Marcenaro), 2011, Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 63(1), pp 27-48

"Parents' Skills and Children's Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Outcomes" (with E. Meschi, A. Vignoles), 2011, Education Economics, vol. 19(5), pages 451-474

"Relative Rewards to Immigration" (with J. Wadsworth), 2010, Review of Economics of the Household, vol. 8(1), pp. 147-169

"Migrant Networks and Migration Policy: A “Grease or Sand the Wheel” Relationship?" (with D. Radu), 2011, CESifo DICE Report, 9(4), pp. 32-38

"Teenage Learners and Teachers’ Job Satisfaction in Vocational Education" (with A. Koslowski), 2010, Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, vol. 2(1), pp. 1-19

"Location intentions of immigrants at retirement: stay/return or go 'back and forth?" (with F.-C. Wolff), 2010, Applied Economics, vol. 42(26), pp 3319-3333

"Language proficiency of immigrants and misclassification" (with F.-C. Wolff), 2007, Applied Economics Letters, vol. 14(12), pp. 857-861

"Self-selection and the performance of return migrants: the source country perspective" (with M. Piracha), 2005, Journal of Population Economics, vol. 18(4), pp. 779-807

"Prevention and Private Health Insurance in the U.K" (with C. Courbage), 2004, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance , vol. 29(4), pp. 719-727

"Low Pay Mobility in the Swiss Labour Market" (with B. Zuercher), 2004, in: Minimum Wage, Low Pay and Unemployment in Europe, Meulders, Plasman and Rycx eds, Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, UK

"Wage Differentials between Ethnic Groups in Switzerland", 2001, Labour: A Journal of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, vol. 15(1), pp. 111-132

"Four Essays on the Labor Market Assimilation of Immigrants in Switzerland", 2000, PhD, University of Geneva

"Regional Unemployment Disparities: Foreign Workforce and UV curve", 1999, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, vol. 135(2), pp. 165-185, (published version in French)

"Evidence on the Education Profile and the Assimilation of Immigrants in Switzerland", 1998, International Journal of Manpower, 19(7), pp. 533-544

Discussion/working papers:

"Immigration Stocks and Flows, APS and Electoral Register Data" (with R. Egyei, J. Wadsworth), 2020, Economic Statistic Centre of Excellence, ESCoE DP 2020-13.

Young people in low level vocational education: characteristics, trajectories and labour market outcomes (with Hedges, S., Nafilyan, V., Speckesser, S.), 2017, LSE CVER DP004

Empirical research on Youth Transitions to, and within the labour market: Findings of descriptive and econometric analyses (with Speckesser, S., Anders, J., Dorsett, R., Espinoza Bustos, H., Kirchner Sala, L., Nafilyan, V.), 2015, (Research Paper; No. 255). Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), London, UK

"Drivers and Challenges in Raising Achievement of Pupils from Bangladeshi, Somali and Turkish Backgrounds" (with Meschi, Strand, Vorhaus), 2010, DCFS report RR226

"Education, Basic Skills and Health-Related Outcomes" (with E. Meschi, M. Yates), 2010, UCL Institute of Education (IOE) NRDC research report , London

Other work/dissemination:

"The 1980s Reforms of Apprenticeships in Britain; Long-Term Impacts?", 2022, King's College London

"More Evidence on the Employment Effect of Recent Immigration: Switzerland in the 1990s", 2005, mimeo, King's College London

"Va-et-Vient", 2006, LSE CentrePiece, 10 (3)

"Immigration flows and dual labour markets: Evidence from Switzerland" (with F.-C. Wolff), 2006 (with my command swregun in TSP (access Clint Cummins webpage)

"SfL Teachers' Qualifications and their Learners' Progress in Numeracy" (with O. Cara), 2009, UCL Institute of Education (IOE) NRDC research report , London

"Minimum Wage and Staying-on Rates in Education for Teenagers in the UK" (with J. Wadsworth, E. Meschi), 2014, mimeo, King's College London