Profile
Biography
BSc Mathematics (Imperial College London)
MSc Economics (University of Bristol)
PhD Economics (University of Bristol)
Career
I joined the University of York in 2022 from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, where I was an Associate Director co-leading the Education and Skills group. My main research interests are in labour economics and the economics of education.
Research
Overview
I have led a large programme of research using the Department for Educations' Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset to look at outcomes from higher education in the UK. See here for a summary of the projects.
Publications
Selected publications
The impact of health on labour supply near retirement Journal of Human Resources, 2021 (with Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias and Eric French)
Do Income Contingent Student Loan Programs Reduce Labor Supply Economics of Education Review, 2020 (with Jon Gruber)
Health and Employment Among Older Workers Fiscal Studies, 2020 (with Eric French)
A comparison of sample survey measures of earnings of English graduates with administrative data, Journal for the Royal Statistical Society (Series A) with discussion, 2019 (with Neil Shephard and Anna Vignoles)
Is improving access to university enough? Socio-economic gaps in the earnings of English graduates, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019 (with Lorraine Dearden, Neil Shephard and Anna Vignoles)
Income contingent loan design: Lessons from around the world, Economics of Education Review, 2019 (with Laura van der Erve and Tim Higgins)
Teacher pay and school productivity: Exploiting wage regulation, Journal of Public Economics, 2016 (with Carol Propper)
