Economics

Andrew Wainwright

PhD Researcher in Economics (ESRC 1+3)
University of Bath, Department of Economics

Start date: October 2019

Research topic: Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Social Tipping Points

I am interested in the effect of pro-environmental attitudes on governments, firms and other individuals, and modelling the progress towards social tipping points. Fake news, in-group identification, and social echo chambers all play a role in shaping social norms. This is an inter-disciplinary undertaking and I am looking for input from economics, psychology and other disciplines in producing and testing my models.

Very interested to hear about people and organisations working in similar or related areas.

Research supervisors: Paolo Zeppini, Bruce Morley

Email: akw37@bath.ac.uk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewwainwright/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/wainwra

Angela Sanchez Gonzalez

PhD Researcher in Economics (ESRC 1+3)
University of Exeter, Business School

Start date: September 2015

Research topic: Exploring the importance of non-monetary incentives for employee performance within organizations

Email: as773@exeter.ac.uk

Cholwoo Kim

PhD Researcher in Economics (ESRC 1+3)
University of Exeter, Business School

Start date: September 2016

Research topic: To be confirmed

I am yet to confirm my exact research topic however the research area of my interest lies in Macroeconomics. More importantly, I would like to research the relationship between technical changes and unemployment.

Research supervisors: To be confirmed

Email: ck371@exeter.ac.uk

Ellen Greaves

PhD Researcher in Economics (ESRC +3)
University of Bristol, Economics, Finance and Management

Start date: September 2016

Research topic: The economics of school choice

My research will provide evidence on whether parents in England value academic quality when choosing between state-schools, which is necessary for the mechanism of school choice to improve academic standards. I will explore the effects of school choice on social and ethnic segregation across schools, and simulate how this would change under alternative admissions criteria for schools that move away from the typical distance based criteria, accounting for residential preferences. I will also explore the causal effect of school quality on future attainment, by comparing the outcomes for children that are marginally accepted and rejected from their preferred school.

Research supervisors: Dr Simon Burgess, Dr Helene Turon

Professional memberships/Positions held:

Part-time senior research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Email: ellen.greaves@bristol.ac.uk

Hannes Titeca

PhD Researcher in Economics (ESRC 1+3)
University of Exeter, University of Exeter Business School

Start date: September 2015

I am yet to confirm my exact research topic however I am most interested in looking at individual and group behaviour and how these relate to economic outcomes. As part of my Masters dissertation I plan to conduct an experiment looking at why many people choose to cooperate and behave in ways that do not, at least initially, appear to be in their best interests. More specifically, the role of shame related to knowing that others will observe what actions one has made and how this might interact with the long studied role of communication possibilities in such situations.

Email: ht345@exeter.ac.uk

LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/hannest

Jingya Zeng

PhD Researcher in Economics (ESRC +3)
University of Exeter, Business School

Start date: October 2019

Research topic: Health Economics: Investigating social contagion of mental illness.

I am interested in investigating whether there exist spill-over effects between individuals’ mental health, particularly within the household context and in the workplace. Besides, the Internet has become part of our life. I am also interested in exploring the relationship of internet use to mental illness.

Research supervisors: Dr Xiaohui Zhang, Dr Jess Tyrrell

Email: jz451@exeter.ac.uk

Oska Fentem

ESRC +3
University of Bristol, School of Economics

Start date: September 2022

Research topic: The Social Impacts of New Media

My research will provide evidence to formally assess claims which suggest that new media platforms have contributed to the increasing radicalisation and polarisation of political thought in modern society. Recent advances in machine learning will be used in conjunction with models from empirical industrial organisation in order to model both the supply and demand side of these platforms. It is hoped that this work will have implications well beyond academia, as a basis for discussion about whether and how new media should be subjected to further regulations.

Research supervisors: Prof. Vincent Han, Dr Sebastian Ellingsen

Email: oska.fentem@bristol.ac.uk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oska-fentem-668906153/

Xiaoran Liang

PhD Researcher in Economics (ESRC +3)
University of Bristol, School of Economics, Finance and Management

Start date: October 2017

My research focuses on using various methods, like Lasso and hard thresholding, to select variables from a large set in an econometrics/causal analysis framework (e.g. instrumental variables analysis with genes, Mendelian randomisation).

Research supervisors: Professor Frank Windmeijer, Dr Alex Tetenov

Email: xl15923@bristol.ac.uk