Ieva Skarda
PhD Student

Profile

Biography

Ieva was awarded a PhD in Economics from the Department of Economics and Related Studies in January 2019.  Her PhD was supervised by Dr Andrew Pickering and Dr Mauro Bambi and funded by the ESRC (+3) studentship.

The focus of her PhD thesis was on the relationship between economic inequality and the effectiveness of different kinds of foreign aid.  Her work applied methods for panel data analysis, and analysis using microeconomics and macroeconomics models.   
In September 2017 Ieva started working as a postdoctoral research fellow on distributive justice, together with Professor Richard Cookson and Dr Miqdad Asaria at the Centre for Health Economics, York: https://www.york.ac.uk/che/staff/research/ieva-skarda/

Research

Overview

Research interests:

• Inequality
• Foreign aid
• Institutions
• Growth
• Development

Projects

Discussion Paper:

The Political Economy of Foreign Aid Effectiveness (October 2016)

Research group(s)

• Macroeconomics-Finance Cluster (DERS)
• Health Equity Group (CHE)

Supervision

• Dr  Andrew Pickering
• Dr Mauro Bambi

Thesis Advisory Panel (TAP) Member:

• Dr Giacomo de Luca

Teaching

Undergraduate

2016/2017

• Microeconomics I
• Microeconomics II

2015/2016

• Microeconomics II

Awards:

• Acknowledgement of Teaching Excellence (June 2016 and June 2017)
• Ellis-Hunter teaching scholarship (academic years 2015/2016 and 2016/2017)
• York Learning and Teaching Award (September 2016)