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Inaugural Essex PhD Conference in Applied Economics

  • Mon 27 - Tue 28 Mar 23

    09:00

  • Colchester Campus

    Essex Business School

  • Event type

    Conferences

  • Event organiser

    Economics, Department of

The University of Essex is hosting the Inaugural Essex PhD Conference in Applied Economics on 27th and 28th March, 2023. The conference 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 and the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER). 

This two-day conference is designed 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 Oriana Bandiera (LSE) and Marco Francesconi (University of Essex) as keynote speakers.

The conference is open to PhD students at all stages of study, as well as to early career researchers who have completed their PhD in the academic year 2021-22. The conference program will include full presentations followed by a discussion and a Q&A session, as well as shorter ‘flash presentation’ sessions for students to showcase in-progress work and ideas. Submissions are welcome from all areas of Applied Economics, including (but not restricted to) labour economics, the economics of education, the economics of gender, and experimental economics.

Applicants are invited to submit extended abstracts not exceeding more than two pages, outlining the background and motivation, research objective, data and methodology, key findings and contributions of the work. All submissions will be reviewed by a scientific committee comprising of faculty members from the University of Essex Economics Department.

Applications must be submitted by 3rd January 2023 11:59 PM (GMT). Applicants will be notified of acceptance by mid-February 2023.

 

More information about the Conference can be found on our FAQ page. For any queries about the conference, please get in touch with us at econ-phdconference@essex.ac.uk.

 

Keynote speakers

Professor Imran Rasul

Professor Imran Rasul

Department of Economics, University College London

Imran Rasul is Professor of Economics at University College London, Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Co-Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy. His research interests include labour, development and public economics and his work has been published in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica and the Review of Economic Studies. He is past managing editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association (2016-22), and co-editor and director of the Review of Economic Studies (2009-17). He was awarded the 2007 IZA Young Labour Economist Prize, the 2008 CESIfo Distinguished Affiliate Award, an ERC-starter grant in 2012, and a British Academy Mid-career Fellowship in 2018. He is President-elect for the Royal Economic Society for 2024 (to serve as President in 2025), and Vice-President for the European Economic Association in 2024 (to serve as President-Elect in 2025 and President in 2026). In 2019 he was jointly awarded the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics (with Oriana Bandiera). He is an elected Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Econometric Society. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire for Services to Social Sciences in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2020.

Dr Ben Etheridge

Dr Ben Etheridge

Department of Economics, University of Essex

Dr. Ben Etheridge is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Essex, and a research associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the Centre for Micro-Social Change (MiSoc). His primary research areas include labour economics, inequality, and the dynamics of household income. He is currently exploring changes in the nature of work, alongside broader determinants of inequality and poverty measurement. His research has been published in leading academic journals, such as the European Economic Review, Economic Journal, Labour Economics, and Health Economics. His recent works include studies on worker productivity and adaptation during Covid-19, policy uncertainty and information flows, and the impact of gender on mental well-being during the pandemic. He has also contributed to the analysis of income inequality, job polarization, and the relationship between house prices and consumption inequality.
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