Imran Rasul
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
University
College London
Drayton House
30 Gordon Street
London WC1H OAX
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7679 5853 [UCL]
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7291 4821 [IFS]
Fax:
+44 (0)20 7916 2775
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Date of Birth: |
29th July 1974 |
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Gender: |
Male |
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Citizenship: |
British |
Employment
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Professor of
Economics, University College London |
October |
2009 |
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Associate
Professor (Reader) of Economics, University College London |
October |
2007 |
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Assistant
Professor (Lecturer) of Economics, University College London |
July |
2005 |
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Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Graduate School of Business |
Sept |
2002 |
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Tutorial Fellow, London School of
Economics |
Sept |
2000 |
Co-director, ESRC Centre for the
Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy, Institute
for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
Co-director, Human Capital Research Program, International
Growth Centre (IGC)
Education
PhD Economics, London School of Economics (2003)
Thesis title: Non-contractabilities in the Household - Theory and Evidence
Principal Advisor: Professor Timothy Besley
M.Phil. Economics, Oxford University (1997)
B.Sc. Economics, London School of Economics (1995)
Fields
of Interest
Labor
economics
Development economics
Public economics
REPEC Page
Google Scholar Page
Publications
in Refereed Journals
Team Incentives: Evidence From a Firm Level Experiment, joint with Oriana Bandiera (LSE) and Iwan Barankay (UPenn), forthcoming, Journal of the European Economic Association.
The Making of Modern America: Migratory Flows in the Age of Mass Migration, joint with Oriana Bandiera (LSE) and Martina Viarengo (Geneva), Journal of Development Economics, Volume 102, May 2013, pp 23-47.
Field Experiments With Firms,
, joint with Oriana Bandiera (LSE) and
Iwan Barankay (UPenn), Journal of Economic
Perspectives, Vol. 25,
Number 3 (Summer 2011), pp 63–82.
Matched Fundraising: Evidence From a Natural
Field Experiment, joint
with Steffen Huck (UCL), Journal
of Public Economics, Vol.95 Issues 5-6, June 2011: 351-62.
Heterogeneous Class Size Effects: New Evidence
From a Panel of University Students, with Oriana Bandiera (LSE), and Valentino Larcinese (LSE), Economic Journal , December 2010, Vol.
120: 1365-98.
Transaction Costs in
Charitable Giving: Evidence From Two Field Experiments, joint with Steffen Huck (UCL),
The B.E.
Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 10 : Iss. 1 (Advances), Article 31,
2010.
Social Incentives in the Workplace, joint with Oriana Bandiera (LSE), and Iwan Barankay (Warwick),
Review of Economic Studies, April 2010, Vol.
77, Iss. 2: 417-59.
Family Networks and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence
From a Randomized Social Experiment, joint with Manuela Angelucci (Arizona), Giacomo De Giorgi
(Stanford), and Marcos A.Rangel (Chicago),
Journal of Public
Economics, April 2010, Vol. 94, Iss. 3-4: 197–221.
Intentions to Participate
in Adolescent Training Programs: Evidence From Uganda, joint
with Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Robin Burgess (LSE), Markus Goldstein (World Bank),
Selim Gulesci (LSE), and Munshi Sulaiman (LSE/BRAC), Journal of the European Economic Association (Papers and Proceedings),
April-May 2010, Iss. 8.2-3.
The Role of the Agent's Outside
Options in Principal-Agent Relationships, joint with Silvia
Sonderegger (Bristol), Games and Economic
Behavior, March 2010, Vol. 68: 781-8.
Village Economies and the Structure
of Extended Family Networks, joint with Manuela Angelucci (Arizona),
Giacomo de Giorgi (Stanford), and Marcos A.Rangel (Chicago), The Berkeley Electronic Journal of Economic Analysis
& Policy, Vol. 9 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 44, October
2009.
Social Connections and Incentives: Evidence From Personnel
Data,
joint
with Oriana Bandiera (LSE), and Iwan Barankay (Warwick),
Econometrica, July 2009, 77: 1047-94.
Social Capital in the Workplace: Evidence on its Formation
and Consequences, joint
with Oriana Bandiera (LSE), and Iwan Barankay (Warwick), Labor Economics, September
2008,
15: 725-49 (special issue on
Firms and Employees).
Household Bargaining Over Fertility: Theory and Evidence from
Malaysia, Journal
of Development Economics, June 2008, 86: 215-41. [Lead article]
The Economics of the Marriage Contract: Theories and Evidence, joint with Niko Matouschek (Northwestern), Journal of Law and Economics, February
2008, 51: 59-110.
Incentives for Managers and Inequality Among
Workers: Evidence From a Firm Level Experiment, joint with Oriana Bandiera (LSE) and Iwan Barankay (Essex), Quarterly Journal of Economics. May 2007,
122: 729-75.
Marriage Markets and Divorce Laws, Journal of Law, Economics and
Organization, November 2006, 22: 30-69.
Social Networks, and Technology Adoption in
Northern Mozambique, joint
with Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Economic
Journal, October 2006, 116: 862-902. [Lead article]
The Economics of Child Custody, Economica,
February 2006, 73: pp 1-25. [Lead article]
The Evolution of Cooperative Norms: Evidence From
a Natural Field Experiment, joint with Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Iwan Barankay (Essex), Berkeley Electronic Journal in Economic Policy and
Analysis: Advances, 2006, 6: 1-28, (special issue on field
experiments edited by John List). [Lead article]
Social Preferences and the Response to
Incentives: Evidence From Personnel Data, joint with Oriana Bandiera (LSE) and Iwan Barankay (Essex), Quarterly Journal of Economics August 2005,
120: 917-62.
Cooperation in Collective Action, joint with Oriana Bandiera (LSE) and Iwan Barankay (Essex), Economics of Transition, July 2005, 13:
473-98, (special issue on institutions and economic performance).
Book
Chapters
Field Experiments in Labor Economics, joint
with John A.List, as Chapter 2 in Handbook
of Labor Economics Volume 4a, O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (editors),
Elsevier, 2011,
pp104-228.
Extended Family Networks
in Rural Mexico: A Descriptive Analysis, joint with Manuela
Angelucci (Arizona), Giacomo De Giorgi (Stanford), and Marcos Rangel (Chicago),
Institutional Microeconomics of Development,
edited by Timothy Besley and Raji Jayaraman, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010.
Working
Papers
Management of Bureaucrats and Public Service Delivery: Evidence from the Nigerian Civil Service, joint with Daniel Rogger (UCL and IFS).
Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?, joint with Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Robin Burgess (LSE), Narayan Das (BRAC), Selim Gulesci (Bocconi) and Munshi Sulaiman (BRAC).
Livestock Asset Transfers With and Without Training: Evidence from Rwanda, joint with Jonathan Argent (IGC) and Britta Augsburg (IFS).
Empowering Adolescent Girls: Evidence
from a Randomized Control Trial in Uganda, joint with Oriana
Bandiera (LSE), Niklas Buehren (World Bank), Robin Burgess (LSE), Markus
Goldstein (World Bank), Selim Gulesci (Bocconi), and Munshi Sulaiman (BRAC).
Policing Cannabis and Drug Related Hospital Admissions: Evidence from Administrative Records, joint with Elaine Kelly (IFS), revisions requested, Journal of Public Economics.
Comparing Charitable Fundraising Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment and a Structural Model, joint with Steffen Huck (UCL) and Andrew Shephard (UPenn), revisions requested, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Resource Pooling Within Family Networks: Insurance and Investment, joint with Manuela Angelucci (Arizona) and Giacomo de Giorgi (Stanford), revisions requested, Journal of Political Economy.
Reserve Price Effects in Auctions: Estimates from Multiple RD Designs, joint with Lars Nesheim (UCL) and Syngjoo Choi (UCL), revisions requested, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
Crime and the Depenalization of Cannabis Possession: Evidence from a Policing Experiment, joint with Jerome Adda (EUI) and Brendon McConnell (UCL), revisions requested, Journal of Political Economy.
Policy/Consulting
Papers
Reducing Risky Behaviours Through the Provision of Information, joint with Haroon Chowdry (IFS) and Elaine Kelly (IFS), CUBeC report for Department of Education, March 2013.
Behaviour Change and Energy Use: Is a
“Nudge” Enough?, joint with David Hollywood (UCL), invited
editorial, Carbon Management 3:
349-351, August 2012.
Tax and Benefit Policy: Insights from
Behavioural Economics, joint with Andrew Leicester and Peter
Levell, IFS Commentary C125, July 2012.
Behavioural
Economics and Tax Reform,
joint with Andrew Leicester and Peter Levell, IFS Observation, July 2012.
Understanding School Financial
Decisions, joint with Rebecca Allen (IoE), Simon
Burgess (Bristol) and Leigh McKenna (Bristol), Department for Education
Research Report DFE-RR183, April 2012.
Punjab Economic Opportunities
Program, Phase 1 Baseline Report for Livestock, joint with A.Q.
Khan, S.Gulzar, D. Hollywood, H.Iqbal, and A.A.Lodhi, prepared for and
presented to DfID Pakistan and the Livestock Department, Government of Punjab,
Pakistan, December 2011.
Evidence on Behavioural Change, with Myra Mohnen (UCL), prepared for and presented to the House
of Lords Science and Technology Committee, October/November 2010.
Decriminalizing
Cannabis: The Impact on Crime, VoxEU Talk, October 2010;
Link to YouTube Video
The Impact of Class Size
on the Performance of University Students with Oriana Bandiera (LSE), and Valentino
Larcinese (LSE), VoxEU, January 2010.
Benchmarking Government Social Safety Nets
Spending, joint
with Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess, framework paper for Social Protection
Division, World Bank, August 2003.
Food Security in Zambezia Province, Mozambique: A
Baseline Survey, joint
with Jorge Gallego-Lizon, Movimondo Molisv Working Paper, 2001.
Refereeing
Activities
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics; American Economic Journal: Economic Policy; American Economic Review; Berkeley Electronic Journals; Econometrica; Economica; Economic Journal; Economics of Transition; Experimental Economics; Fiscal Studies; International Journal of the Economics of Business; Journal of African Economies; Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal of Economic Literature; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of the European Economic Association; Journal of Labor Economics; Journal of Law and Economics; Journal of Law, Economics and Organization; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Public Economics; Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics; Oxford Economic Papers; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Review of Economics and Statistics; Review of Economic Studies; Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations; World Development.
Agricultural Technology
Adoption Initiative (ATAI) grants; ERC
Starting Grants Evaluation Panel SH1: Individuals and Organizations (European
Union); Economic and Social Research Council; Leverhulme; Medical Research
Council; National Science Foundation;
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO);
Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada; US-Israel Binational Science Foundation.
Joint Managing Editor, Review
of Economic Studies (2009-13)
Editorial Board, Review of Economic Studies (2006-13)
Editorial Board, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
(2007-9)
Departmental
Public Service
Graduate Tutor, UCL Department of Economics, 2008-
M.Sc. Environmental and Resource Economics Program Director, 2008
Junior Recruitment Committee, 2006, 2007, 2008
Co-organizer STICERD/UCL Development and Growth Seminar Series, 2006-
University
Public Service
Selection Panel, UCL Scholarships (Shell Centenary,
Celebration 60,
Master's), 2009, 2012
Selection Panel, Institute of Child Health, Research Associate in Health
Economics, October 2009
Academic Careers Forum, November 2011
Other
Public Service
Scientific Committee Member, 6th Migration and Development Conference (World Bank and AFD), 2013; Scientific Committee Member, Norface Conference on “Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers”, 2013; Royal Economic Society Conference, Special Session Organized on the Economics of Illegal Markets, 2012; EEA Congress Programme Committee 2012, 2013; Econometrics and Empirical Economics (EEE) Programme Committee of the Econometric Society European Meetings (ESEM), 2011; UCL Leverhulme Symposium on Population Footprints, Programme Committee, 2011; SOLE Programme Committee, 2010; Royal Economic Society Job Market Conference Committee Member, 2007; Conference Organizing Committees: Royal Economic Society Conference Program Committee Member 2006-7.
Programme Chair, Royal Economic Society
Conference, 2013.
Member, Council of the European Economic
Association, 2012-16.
ESRC Peer Review College,
2010-14.
European Research Council Referee, 2008-13.
BREAD Summer School Committee, 2008.
Evaluation Consultation Group, UK Ministry
of Justice, 2012-
Phd Thesis Examination
Bocconi; Cambridge; Ecole Polytechnique; European University Institute; London School of Economics; Oxford, University College London.
Media
Coverage
Australian Financial Review, Daily Mail, Economist, Financial Times, Focus Magazine (Germany), Guardian, London Evening Standard, Slate Magazine, Telegraph, Times of London, Times of Singapore.
Teaching Experience
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2011 |
CERP/CLEAR Executive Education Course |
Program Evaluation |
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2010-date |
University College London |
PhD
Workshop |
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2010 |
University College London |
Graduate Behavioral
Economics |
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2009 |
J-PAL/EBRD Executive Education Course |
Program Evaluation |
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2008 |
RTN Masterclass |
Personnel Economics |
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2008 |
BREAD Summer School |
Education, Social Networks |
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2005-date |
University College London |
Graduate Development Economics |
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2005-2009 |
University College London |
Undergraduate Economic Policy Analysis |
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2005-8 |
University College London |
Undergraduate Microeconomics |
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2002-5 |
University of Chicago GSB |
MBA Microeconomics |
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1997-2002 |
London School of Economics |
Graduate Econometrics |
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London
School of Economics |
Graduate Development Economics |
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London
School of Economics |
Graduate Course on Econometrics for
Development Economics |
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London
School of Economics |
Undergraduate Econometrics |
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London
School of Economics |
LSE Summer School (development economics,
intermediate microeconomics; economic perspectives on society) |
Recent
Teaching Evaluation Grades (overall students' satisfaction with the course):
Graduate Behavioral Economics 2010/11: 4.44 out of 5
Graduate Development Economics 2010/11: 4.12 out of 5
Graduate Development Economics 2009/10: 4.20 out of 5
Graduate Development Economics 2008/9: 4.36 out of 5
Graduate Students Advised and First Placement
As Primary Advisor
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Expected 2017 |
Luke
Sibieta |
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Expected
2016 |
Kai Barron |
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Expected
2016 |
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Expected
2015 |
Arun Advani |
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Expected
2013 |
Marieke Schnabel |
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Expected
2013 |
Daniel Rogger |
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Expected 2013 |
Brendon McConnell |
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Expected
2013 |
Joao Montalvao Machado |
World Bank |
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2013 |
Niklas Buehren |
World Bank |
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2011 |
Abhishek Chakravarty |
Essex University, Economics Department |
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2011 |
Elaine Kelly |
Institute of Fiscal Studies, Research
Economist |
As Secondary Advisor
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Expected
2016 |
Bansi Malde |
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Expected
2014 |
Myra Mohnen |
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2009 |
Nithin Umapathi |
World Bank Young
Professionals Program |
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2007 |
Mare Sare |
University of Cape Town |
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2006 |
Williams College |
PRE Doc Research assistants and phd placement
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2012 |
Sehr Syed |
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2011 |
David
Hollywood |
Government Economic
Service (UK) |
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2010 |
UCL (IFS PhD Scholarship) |
Honors, Grants, and Scholarships
| 2012 | PEDL-IZA-DFID Grant: Easing Constraints for Small Firm Expansion in Uganda [££348,600; PI] | |
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2012 |
ERC Starting Grant:
The Economics of Mass Migration - Theory and Evidence [€1.1mn; PI] |
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2012 |
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2012 |
Ministry of Justice,
Payment by Results Pilot Programme [£58,951, Co-PI]. |
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2012 |
UCL Provost’s
Strategic Development Fund for Small Research Grants in the Humanities
[£7,195, PI]. |
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2012 |
ATAI: Women Farmers and Barriers to Technology
Adoption: A Randomized Evaluation of BRAC's Extension Program in Rural
Uganda: [$233,858, Co-I] |
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2012 |
BRAC, Mastercard
Foundation and anonymous donors: Expansion of Small Firms and Job
Creation for the Youth in Uganda, Uganda [$1mn, Co-PI] |
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2011 |
Fund for Evaluation in
Youth Employment, ILO [PI]: Grant for follow-up survey in Tanzania of
adolescent girls for the evaluation of an entrepreneurship program [$58,099]. |
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2011 |
Briefing Paper for
Nuffield Foundation on Behavioural Economics and Public Policy [£32,054]
[Co-applicant, PI: Andrew Leicester] |
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2011 |
Schoeller Senior
Fellow 2011 [€50,000]: Understanding Illicit Behavior |
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2010 |
UCL IMPACT Award
[3-year PhD award] |
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2009 |
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2008 |
Excellence in Refereeing Award, American
Economic Review |
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2008 |
CESIfo Distinguished Affiliate Award |
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2008 |
British Academy Research Development Award:
The Making of Modern America: Characteristics and Outcomes of Migrants to the
United States 1892-1924 |
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2008 |
Gender Action Plan (GAP), World Bank: Human
Capital, Financial Capital, and the Economic Empowerment of Female
Adolescents: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention |
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2007 |
IZA Young Labor Economist Award (joint with
Oriana Bandiera and Iwan Barankay) |
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2007 |
ELSE Grant: Charitable Giving |
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2007 |
ESRC RES-000-22-2182: Estimating the Social
Consequences of the Decriminalization of Drugs on Crime, Accidents, and
Educational Achievements |
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2007 |
ESRC RES-000-22-1859: Social Connections,
Sorting and the Productivity of Teams: Evidence from Combined Personnel and
Survey Data |
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2005 |
ESRC
RES-000-22-0785: Incentives, Social Preferences and Workers Productivity: New
Empirical Evidence |
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2003 |
RES Small Grant: Incentives and
Performance |
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2003 |
STICERD Grant: Incentives and Performance |
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1998, 1999 |
LSE Economics Department Teaching Prize |
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1997-9 |
LSE Research Studentship |
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1996 |
Master's Scholarship, Oxford University |
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1995-98 |
ESRC Studentship |
Seminar and Conference Presentations
| 2013/14 | Manchester; Surrey Toulouse; CEPR Workshop on Incentives, Management and Organisation, LSE; Human Capital and Productivity Workshop at Warwick. | |
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2012/13 |
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2011/12 |
Bocconi; Cambridge; CERGE-EI,
Prague; Chicago Booth;
DFID; Michigan; Michigan State; Zurich;
EEA (Malaga); Workshop on Cognitive and
Non-cognitive skills over the Life Cycle, Research Centre for Education and
the Labour Market (ROA), Maastricht;
SITE Workshop on Institutions and
Development; Festival of Economics, Trento. |
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2010/11 |
Aarhus; Chicago Harris
School; Columbia Business School; GREQAM; Innsbruck; Max Planck Institute,
Bonn;
Milano-Bicocca;
Munich;
Paris School of Economics; Bank of Italy, Rome; Royal Holloway; UCL (JDI);
Wharton; Yale; BRAC-IGC-IIG Conference (Dhaka); EOPP-STICERD Conference on
Economic Foundations of Public Policy (LSE); Royal Economic Society
Conference. |
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2009/10 |
Berlin; CEMMAP;
Columbia; Duke; Essex; IFS; INSEAD; LSE; MIT/Harvard; Pompeu Fabra;
St.Andrews; Sydney; Warwick; Zurich; EEA (Glasgow); CSAE Conference on
Economic Development in Africa (Oxford); Natural Experiments and Controlled
Field Studies Workshop (Munich); SIRE Conference (Edinburgh). |
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2008/9 |
Erasmus University; IFS(2); IZA; Middlebury;
Oxford; Sabanci; CEPR/ESF
Workshop on Micro-Finance and Entrepreneurship (Oxford); Conference
on Relativity, Inequality and Public Policy at Edinburgh; EEA (Barcelona) |
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2007/8 |
Alicante; Bocconi; Collegio Carlo Alberto
(Torino); Duke; Edinburgh; EUI (Florence); Lausanne; NY Fed; Oxford; St.
Andrews; Sussex; UBC; Washington; Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging;
CESifo Conference on Employment and Social Protection; EWEBE Conference in
Lyon; IFN Stockholm Conference on Family, Children and Work; LACEA Conference
in Bogota; Public Economics Conference (Warwick); Tinbergen Institute
Conference; Department of Trade and Industry UK. |
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2006/7 |
Autònoma;
Berkeley; Caltech; Carlos III; CEMFI; Essex; LBS; LSE (2); Northwestern;
Paris-Jourdan; Pompeu Fabra; QMW; Stanford; Toulouse; UCL; Warwick; Yale;
CEPR/EUDN Development Economics Symposium in Paris; NBER SI 2007 Empirical
Personnel Economics Workshop. |
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2005/6 |
Boston
College; Bristol; CEMMAP; Cornell; IIES; IFS; Leicester; MIT/Harvard; NERA;
SOAS; Tinbergen; UCL; Zurich; BREAD CESifo Conference in Venice; CEPR
Economics of Labour Market Relations, Bergen; CEPR European Summer Symposium
in Economic Theory 2006; Conference on the Analysis of Firms and Employees
(Cafe 2006) Nuremberg; COST A23 Conference: ELSE Laboratory Experiments and
the Field (LEaF) Conference, London; Evaluation of European Labour Market
Programmes in Paris; FEMES2006; Marriage
and Family: Complexities and Perspectives Conference at Cornell University; SITE
Conference at Stanford; Utah Winter Business Economics Conference. |
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Pre 2005 |
Berkeley; Bocconi; Bonn Boston University; Brown;
Chicago, Chicago GSB (5); Columbia; Essex (2); Haas at UC Berkeley; IEES
Stockholm (2); IFS (2); LSE (2); Mannheim; Maryland; Michigan;
Missouri-Columbia; Northwestern; Princeton; Stanford; Stanford GSB;
Toronto; Warwick; World Bank (2); UCL; Yale (2); Yale SoM; ELSE Laboratory Experiments
and the Field (LEaF) Conference; CEPR Public Policy Symposium, Paris; CEPR
Conference on Organizational Behavior, Structure and Change in Toulouse; ESPE
Conference, NYU; NEUDC in Cornell. |
Invited/Keynote Lectures
| 2013 | DFID/USAID/World Bank Day at EGAP 9 Conference, London | |
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2013 |
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2013 |
Annual Norwegian
National Meeting, Stavanger |
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2012 |
Biennial Conference of
the Hong Kong Economic Association |
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2012 |
Migration and
Development Conference, Paris |
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2012 |
CHILD-RECent Economics
of the Family Conference, Modena |
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2011 |
NORFACE-CEPR
Conference on Migration, Vienna |
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2011 |
Workshop on Prosocial
Behavior, Southampton |
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2011 |
Experimental Labor Economics Workshop, Vienna |
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2010 |
Brazilian Meeting of the Econometric Society,
Salvador Bahia |
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2010 |
YEN/ILO
Evaluation Clinic: Youth Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa, Nairobi |
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2009 |
Revista de Economía Aplicada Lecture, Spanish Economic Association Meeting, Valencia |
Affiliations