FACULTY OF SOCIAL & HISTORICAL SCIENCES

Research carried out by Dr David Lawson from UCL Anthropology in collaboration with Dr Anna Goodman (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and Professor Ilona Koupil (Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm) has been reported in the media, including articles in the Economist and New Scientist. Their research published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, tests current theories of why, as human populations get richer, do they start having less children?

A two day International Event at Anthropology Department, UCL on 6th to 7th November 2012

TEDxUCL talk, June 2, 2012

"When the Enemy of My Enemy Is Not My Friend: Why Rebels Sometimes Target Their Own"

The Department is very proud to announce that Su Yi GAN (Economics 2012) has been awarded the Faculty Medal for Social and Historical Sciences.  A socially aware student with a keen and active interest in public policy issues, she is one of the academically strongest students that the department has seen in recent years, and we are extremely proud of her achievement.

The 2012 IZA Prize in Labor Economics is awarded to Richard Blundell (University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies) for his path-breaking contributions to the econometric analysis of labor markets and public-policy reforms. Professor Blundell has played a major role in the development of modern labor and policy analysis. His work is characterized by a focus on pressing questions in economic policy, the development of cutting-edge econometric methods to tackle such questions, and painstaking analysis of micro data. Blundell’s contributions laid the foundations for the modern economic analysis of labor supply, consumer behavior, and policy reforms. His work has been hugely influential for the worldwide debates about tax and welfare reforms during the past decades.

The annual IZA prize, awarded since 2002, is given for outstanding academic achievement in the field of labor economics. Past winners include Jacob Mincer, Dale Mortensen, Christopher Pissarides, David Card, Fran Blau and George Borjas.

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