Rachel Ngai Public Engagement
Public Engagement and Media Coverage
Labour Market
Genderered change: 150 years of transformation in US hours, VoxEU Column, July 2024
Women at Work in the Course of Structural Transformation, Annual Central Bank Conference on Development Economics in MENA, World Bank September 2023.
Unblocking the Road to Women's Market Work, STEG Policy Brief September 2022.
Structural transformation and female work at early development stage, LSE Student-Led Beverage Report Podcast, June 2022.
Women at work in the course of development, International Festival of Economics at Turin June 2022.
Female Time Use and Structural Transformation in Africa, VoxEU Column, February 2022.
Time Use and gender in Africa. The changing nature of work for women, CEPR VoxTalks, Video interview, January 2022.
Why low-skilled worker wages have stagnated even while the economy has thrived, Research for the World - Shaping the Post-COVID World , July 2021.
Structural Transfromation, Home Production and Labor Markets, STEG public lecture, February 2021.
How faster productivity growth in low-skill sectors contribute to wage stagnation, British Politics and Policy Blog, November 2020.
A new explanation for wage stagnation, CEPR VoxTalks, August 2020.
China's mobility barriers and employment allocations VoxChina, March 2018
How the rise of the service economy narrowed the gender gap, CEP CentrPiece, Autumn 2017.
Taxes and market hours: The role of gender and skill, VoxEU Column, October 2017.
How the rise of the service sector boosted the demand for women workers, British Politics and Policy Blog, July 2017. (pdf)
Women's work: the service economy has narrowed the gender gap, Britain in 2016.
Job creation responding to the needs of society, Letter to the Financial Times, December 2008. (pdf)
Housing Market
The effects of transaction taxes on housing market, VoxEU Column, May 2023.
Hot and cold seasons in residential real estate, National Real Estate Forum, podcast and article, August 2017
Moving house, VoxEU Column, October 2015
You have more chance of finding the house you want in the summer. But you'll pay more for it, USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog, March 2015. (pdf)
Hot and cold seasons in the housing market, CEP CentrPiece, Winter 2008/09.
Houses cost more in the summer. Here's why, by Tim Harford, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, September 2008. (pdf)