On this page you find some research areas I find interesting (in no particular order) and in which I am happy to supervise Dissertations (both undergraduate and postgraduate in economics and social science more generally).
Labour, Public & Education Economics
In particular,
- Empirical evaluation of welfare state policies
- Attitudes towards the welfare state
- Migration and labour market / education outcomes
- The education and labour market effects of education policies / education systems
Past dissertations I supervised included:
- The Effect of Information Gaps on Preferences for Wealth Redistribution: An Empirical Analysis
- Crime reduction in the United States: what is the role of incarceration?
- Welfare substitution following the increase in the female State Pension Age.
- Personality Traits and the Ethnic Wage Gap in the UK
- Does feeling British affect labour market outcomes in the UK?
- Immigration and attitudes to unemployment benefits: an analysis of post-2004 Polish immigration to England
- Impact of Child Work on Cognitive Achievement in Adulthood in Ethiopia
- Government Education Spending and Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from the United States
- An Assessment of the Impact of Compressing Secondary Education in Germany
Empirical projects on the Economics of Wellbeing and Happiness
In the past I have supervised topics in this area such as
- A comparative analysis of the association between having children and happiness across Europe: 2004 -2014
- Well-being, Political Preferences and the Macroeconomy
- Evidence on the Relationship between Income, the Source of Income and Well-Being
- Living in a cold home: A wellbeing valuation
- Does the natural environment we live in impact our happiness? A life satisfaction analysis of England
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.
In particular,
- Empirical projects on the effects of environmental regulation on trade / fdi
- Empirical projects on attitudes and behaviour linked to the environment
In the past I have supervised topics in this area such as
- The impact of market-pull and technology-push policies on trade in solar photovoltaic products
- Renewable Energy Policy: Do Feed-in Tariffs attract Foreign Direct Investment?
- Does the natural environment we live in impact our happiness? A life satisfaction analysis of England
- Is Environmental Regulation a Significant Determinant of Foreign Direct Investment Inflows? – A study of the pollution haven hypothesis using an alternative measure for environmental stringency
- Climate change innovations: what role does the environmental stringency play?
- Can technological progress in agriculture reduce deforestation? Evidence from tropical countries
