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How can Economics help in a post COVID-19 world? Can you predict when the economy will recover? How will we adapt to overcome the challenges posed by pandemic uncertainty? Economics isn’t optional to study right now: it’s vital to our future well-being in a post COVID-19 world. The skills you learn at Essex will be in high demand from employers in the coming years.

At Essex we have a unique strength in public policy measures to stimulate and manage the economy, including the behavioural techniques to get messages across. You could combine study of health economics with public economics and development economics to get a broad view of how one can respond to a threat such as COVID-19, balancing home and global needs.

Impatient to find solutions? Economic recovery is probably one the most pressing and urgent challenges right now and studying an economics degree gives you the unique tools to take on this challenge, find a solution, and improve well-being.

Why choose Essex?
  • We are 4th in UK for research power in economics and econometrics (Times Higher Education research power measure, Research Excellence Framework 2021)
  • Get hands-on experience in the world of investment banking with the Student Investment and Trading Fund (SIT Fund) - a unique initiative in the East of England. Participate in an investment boot camp run by Essex alumni who are now investment bankers, before pitching your investment recommendations and monitoring their success
  • We're 7th in the UK and 1st for value-added for economics in the Guardian University Guide (2024) 
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Economics is concerned with the material wellbeing of human societies. It examines the decisions of individuals, the strategies of firms, and the policies of governments. Economics at Essex is a home for determined and inquisitive students who like to ask difficult questions, break intellectual boundaries and create new solutions to issues of global concern.

Why choose Essex?
  • We are 4th in UK for research power in economics and econometrics (Times Higher Education research power measure, Research Excellence Framework 2021).
  • We're 7th in the UK and 1st for value-added for economics in the Guardian University Guide (2024)
  • We work closely with the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) and the UK Data Archive, giving you access to the latest research materials, datasets, archives and resources.
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Essex resources for economists

Visit the UK Data Archive (UKDA), the UK's largest collection of social, economic and population data Visit the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), a leading centre for longitudinal studies and data on people's lives Visit ESSEXLab, a pioneering research laboratory dedicated to social science and behavioural research at the University of Essex.
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Located at the heart of an internationally recognised social science network, you receive advanced research training, expert supervision to support progression through the programme and top quality research facilities.

We know you need access to computers and a quiet place to work so we guarantee office space for you in our PhD Research Centre. Our staff have expertise in areas such as microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, and applied economics.

Although the list below is not exhaustive, it gives you an insight into the wide range of applied and theoretical topics in which we offer supervision.

  • microeconomics
  • macroeconomics
  • industrial organisation
  • econometrics
  • economic history
  • economic theory
Why research here?
  • We are 4th in UK for research power in economics and econometrics (Times Higher Education research power measure, Research Excellence Framework 2021).
  • Ranked in the top 150 globally for economics in the QS World University Rankings by subject (2023).
  • We work closely with the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) and the UK Data Archive, giving you access to the latest research materials, datasets, archives and resources.
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The University of Essex is hosting the 2nd Essex PhD Conference in Applied Economics and will be held in person at the Colchester Campus of the University of Essex, and is organised by the PhD students at the Economics Department, the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) and supported by the South East Network for Social Sciences (SeNSS). The aim of the conference is to provide PhD students in Applied Economics with the opportunity to come together and connect with other PhD students from institutions across the globe in a supportive environment in which they can present their work and ideas to their peers and receive valuable feedback. We are very pleased to be hosting Christian Dustmann (UCL) and Thomas Cornelissen (University of Essex) as keynote speakers.

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Essex resources for economists

Visit the UK Data Archive (UKDA), the UK's largest collection of social, economic and population data Visit the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), a leading centre for longitudinal studies and data on people's lives Visit ESSEXLab, a pioneering research laboratory dedicated to social science and behavioural research at the University of Essex.

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Applied Economics Econometrics Behavioural Experimental and Development Economics Macroeconomics Microeconomics

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