Dr Angus Holford

Biography

Angus Holford is an economist based in the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex. He collected and is now analysing a unique longitudinal survey of Essex undergraduates for a ground-breaking study of student life and outcomes from Higher Education, and has recently produced work on access to and returns from unpaid graduate internships, and the returns to part-time employment among teenagers. Research Agenda: Angus' research agenda is focused on the mechanisms determining human capital investments in and by children and young people. He research interactions with peers and parents and the formation and updating of preferences and expectations in home, school and higher education (HE) settings, and works to evaluate the importance of these mechanisms in determining gender and socio-economic differences in educational attainment and early labour market outcomes. Angus serves on the UK Government’s ‘Evaluation and Trials Advice Panel‘, to support the design and implementation of robust, high-quality evaluations of new government policies. Angus is also a Research Affiliate with the IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor) and was a Research Fellow at the Behavioural Insights Team ('Nudge Unit') at the Cabinet Office, Oct 2012-Jan 2013, where he produced verbal and written policy advice and research reports, and was involved in randomised control trials for evidence-based policy. Research Interests: Evidence-based policy; randomised control trials; peer effects; microeconometrics; family economics; education inequalities.

Qualifications

• PhD Economics University of Essex, (2015)