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Brian Amorim Cabaço

Email: brian.cabaco.17@ucl.ac.uk

 


Ruimin Ao

Ruimin Ao

My primary fields of research are health economics and development economics. I am particularly interested in identifying and quantifying the economic causes of health-related problems, link between social economic status and health outcomes.

Email: ruimin.ao.19@ucl.ac.uk
Website: sites.google.com/view/ruiminao

 

 

 

 


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Elena Ashtari Tafti

Elena’s research interests lie in the field of microeconomics including theoretical work and empirical applications. Her research focuses on healthcare markets with specific attention on healthcare professionals decision making. She is affiliated with the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM)

Email: elena.tafti.17@ucl.ac.uk
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Jihyun Bae

Email: jihyun.bae.15@ucl.ac.uk

 

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Courtney Brell

Email: courtney.brell.17@ucl.ac.uk


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Max Bricker

Email: max.bricker.19@ucl.ac.uk

 

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Marco Castelluccio

Marco is a PhD Scholar at the IFS and a PhD Candidate in Economics at UCL. His main research interest lies within the field of applied microeconomics, with a special focus on environmental economics and firms. Marco’s current research agenda aims at assessing how public policies shape the direction of innovation and firms’ production choices.

Location: 4th Floor, IFS

Email: marco.castelluccio.20@ucl.ac.uk

 


 

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Nicolas Cerkez

Nick's interests are in development economics, political economy, and environmental economics.

Email: nicolas.cerkez.16@ucl.ac.uk
Website: nicolascerkez.com


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Minsok Chae

Email: minsok.chae.17@ucl.ac.uk


 

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Lichao Chen

Email: lichao.chen.17@ucl.ac.uk

 

 

 

 


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Tao Chen

Tao's research interests are Empirical Industrial Organisation; Microeconometrics

Email: zctphea@uck.ac.uk


 

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Wenhao Cheng

Email: wenhao.cheng.17@ucl.ac.uk

 


Alexander Clyde

Alex Clyde

Email: alex.clyde.15@ucl.ac.uk

Websitehttps://alexanderclyde.com


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Riccardo D'Adamo

Email: riccardo.d'adamo.15@ucl.ac.uk
Website: sites.google.com/view/riccardodadamo 


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Stan De Ruijter Van Steveninck

Email:  stan.deruijter.15@ucl.ac.uk


Madigan Dockrill

Madigan Dockrill

Room: G01-4, Drayton House

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Cristian Espinosa Diaz

Email: cristian.espinosa@ucl.ac.uk

 

 


 

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Sebastian Esoinoza Rojas

Sebastan's research interwsts include Labor Economics, Development Economics, Inequality, Economics of Education and Urban Economics.

Email: seespinoza@fen.uchile.cl
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Andrew Eyles

Email: andrew.eyles.14@ucl.ac.uk


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Giuseppe Forte

Giuseppe (2020-2024) has research interests in industrial organisation and applied microeconometrics.

Email: giuseppe.forte.19@ucl.ac.uk
Twitter: @gfrt0
Website: https://gfrt0.github.io/


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Hugo Freeman

Hugo's research interests are in Panel data econometrics.

Email: hugo.freeman.16@ucl.ac.uk
Website: sites.google.com/view/hugofreeman


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Carl Gergs

Carl Gergs

Carl's main interests are in labour economics, public economics and policy evaluation. He is also affiliated with the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM). 

Twitter: @c_gergs
Email: carl.gergs.17@ucl.ac.uk



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Ararat Gocmen

 

Ararat's research interest's include Labor and Finance, Income and Wealth Inequality, Macroeconomic Policy, Modern European History.

Room: 329, Drayton House

Emailararat.gocmen.19@ucl.ac.uk

 

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David Goll

Room: G01-4, Drayton House

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Anusha Guha

Email: anusha.guha.16@ucl.ac.uk


 

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Dongxian Guo

 

Dongxian's research interest's lie in IO and Applied Micro.

Room: G01, Drayton House

Emaildongxian.guo.19@ucl.ac.uk


 

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Jamie Hentall Maccuish

Email: jamie.maccuish.15@ucl.ac.uk


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Hao Hu

 

Hao's research interest's lie in the field of development economics, labor economics, and organizational economics. I am particularly interested in firms' production and state capacity in developing countries, as well as the organizational frictions that hinder their performance.

Room: G01, Drayton House

Emailhao.hu.21@ucl.ac.uk


 

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Llorenzo Incoronato

Lorenzo Incoronato

Lorenzo's research interest's lie in Labor economics and Urban Economics.

Room: 325, Drayton House

Email: lorenzo.incoronato.18@ucl.ac.uk
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Huilei Kang

Email: huilei.kang.19@ucl.ac.uk


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Hikaru Kawarazaki

 

Hikaru's research interest's include Economics of Education, Economics of Crime, Development Economics, Labour Economics, and Applied Econometrics.

Room: 3rd Floor, IFS

Emailhikaru.kawarazaki.20@ucl.ac.uk

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Eric Klemm

Eric's main research interests are in Applied Microeconomics, in particular Labor Economics. He is also affiliated with the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM). 

Emaileric.klemm.20@ucl.ac.uk


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Yongsoo Kim

Email: yongsoo.kim.18@ucl.ac.uk


Yannis Kastis

Yannis Kastis

My fields of interest are labour economics, applied microeconomics and economics of migration. My research focuses on the phenomenon of immigration and more specifically on its impact on local labour markets and the labour market outcomes of natives in the host country. I am affiliated with CReAM.

Email: yannis.kastis.17@ucl.ac.uk
Website: 
cream-migration.org/personneldetail.php?id=302
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Arthur Laroche

 

Arthur's research interest's include Development, Political Economy.

Room: G01, Drayton House

Emailarthur.laroche.21@ucl.ac.uk

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Chiara Lattanzio

 

Chiara's reaearch interests include Banking and Corporate Finance.

Room: G01, Drayton House

Emailchiara.lattanzio.20@ucl.ac.uk

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Thomas Lazarowicz

Email: thomas.lazarowicz.16@ucl.ac.uk


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Howon Lee

Email: howon.lee.16@ucl.ac.uk


Jiangnan Liao

Jiangnan Liao

My research interests are in Labour Economics, in particular topics on gender, migration, and inequality.

Email: jiangnan.liao.16@ucl.ac.uk


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Justinas Markauskas

Justinas Markauskas

My research interests lie in macroeconomics and monetary policy with a focus on sticky price models. In particular, I am investigating heterogeneity of price rigidity at a firm-level and its implications for monetary policy.

Email: justinas.markauskas.09@ucl.ac.uk
Linkedin: 
linkedin.com/in/justinas-markauskas-65068120


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Didac Marti Pinto

Email: didac.marti.pinto.19@ucl.ac.uk


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Enrico Miglino

Enrico's research focuses on public economics, urban economics, search and matching theory and applied structural microeconometrics. He also received a scholarship from the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi.

Email: enrico.miglino.16@ucl.ac.uk
Website
sites.google.com/view/enricomiglino


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Ivan Olszak

Ivan Olszak

Ivan's research focuses on IO and Education.

Location: IFS

Email: i.olszak@ucl.ac.uk
Twitter: @IvanOlszak
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/ivan-olszak-36192b15


Joern Onken

Joern Onken

Joern's research interests are in macroeconomics, in particular the interaction between micro heterogeneity and macro outcomes such as inequality and business cycles.


Email: joern.onken.20@ucl.ac.uk

Website: joernonken.com

 


 

Julen Zarate Pina

 

Julen Ortiz de Zarate Pina

Room: G01-4, Drayton House
Email: julen.pina.14@ucl.ac.uk



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Filippo Pallotti

Filippo Pallotti

Email: filippo.pallotti@ucl.ac.uk


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Oscar Perello Perez

Oscar's research covers topics in international trade and economic development with a focus on production networks. His ongoing projects analyse trade intermediation in buyer-seller networks, the dynamics of global supply chains, and the role of imperfect competition in international trade.

Email: oscar.perello.19@ucl.ac.uk
Twitter: @oiperello
Website: sites.google.com/view/oscarperellop


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Jon Piqueras

 

Jon's research interests include Labor and Public Economics.

Room: G01, Drayton House

Emailjon.piqueras.17@ucl.ac.uk

Website: https://jonpiqueras.github.io/ 


Andrew Preston

Andrew Preston 

My research interests lie in Macro, Finace.

Room: G01, Drayton House

Email: uctpapr@ucl.ac.uk
Twitter: @andypreston_UK
Website: sites.google.com/view/andrew-preston

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Alexander Ralphs

Email: alexander.ralphs.17@ucl.ac.uk


Morgane Richard

Morgane Richard

Email: morgane.richard.16@ucl.ac.uk


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Andrea Smurra

Room: G01-4, Drayton House
Email: a.smurra.11@ucl.ac.uk


David Sturrock

David Sturrock

My current research is based in the microeconomic analysis of household wealth-holding behaviour. My ongoing projects examine the determinants and effects of intergenerational wealth transfers in the UK and the Netherlands, with a focus on the intergenerational transmission of inequality and the role of housing wealth. I am a Senior Research Economist at the IFS.

Website: sites.google.com/site/davidjsturrock/home
Email: david.sturrock.17@ucl.ac.uk


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Rachel Yi Tan

Rachel Yi Tan

Email: rachel.tan.20@ucl.ac.uk


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Alessandro Toppeta

Email: alessandro.toppeta.15@ucl.ac.uk


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Andres Trejos Medina

Email: andres.trejos.16@ucl.ac.uk


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Clara Von Bismarck-Osten

Clara Von Bismarck-Osten

Clara is currently pursuing a Masters of Research at UCL's Department of Economics, for which she earned a co-funded scholarship by the Center for Research and Analysis of Migration and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Her current research is devoted to the impact of maternity leave on mothers’ labour supply and children’s outcomes. She received her MSc in Economics from UCL in 2020 after a year of work experience as a Research Associate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). She also holds a BA in Economics from the University of Mannheim, where she simultaneously worked for the Center for Evaluation and Development (C4ED).

Email: clara.bismarck-osten.19@ucl.ac.uk
Twitter: @claravobi
Website: 
cream-migration.org/personneldetail.php?id=313

 

 


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Guglielmo Ventura

Email: guglielmo.ventura.17@ucl.ac.uk


Anna Vitali

Anna Vitali

I study firms and labour markets in developing countries. My research interests lie at the intersection of development, labor economics and industrial organization.
Email: anna.vitali.16@ucl.ac.uk
Website: 
annavitali.com


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Guanyi Wang

Guanyi is mainly interested in using statistical methods to study optimal policy intervention, social network and spillover effects, strategic interaction, and general econometrics. He has piblished his works in  major peer-reviewed journals in economics including Journal of Econometrics.
Email: guanyi.wang.17@ucl.ac.uk
Website: 
www.guanyi-wang.com


 

Linda Wu

Linda Audrey Wu

Linda's main interests are in labour economics and public economics.
Email: linda.wu.19@ucl.ac.uk

Website: www.sites.google.com/view/lindawu


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Yiming Xia

Room: G01-4, Drayton House
Email: yiming.xia.13@ucl.ac.uk
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Tian Xie

Tian's research interests include Econometric Theory and Applied Economics

Room: G06, Drayton House
Email: tian.xie.20@ucl.ac.uk
 


 

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Linhua Zeng

Linhua's research interests are in Financial Econometrics

Email: linhua.zeng.21@ucl.ac.uk

 


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Weisheng Zhang

Weisheng's research interest include Econometrics.


Email: Weisheng.zhang.21@ucl.ac.uk


 

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Yimeng Zhang

Email: yimeng.zhang.12@ucl.ac.uk

 

 

 


 

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Ruolei Zhu

Ruolei's research interests include Discrete Choice Models, Rational Inattention Models.

Room: G06, Drayton House
Email: ruolei.zhu.19@ucl.ac.uk


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Davide Zufacchi

Davide's research interests include Development Economics, Economics of Crime, Forensic Economics.


Email: davide.zufacchi.20@ucl.ac.uk