Applied economics
Read more about our research in applied economics.
Research
Our research in applied economics covers labour, family and education economics, public finance, health and the economics of ageing, household behaviour, and firms, productivity and applied industrial organisation. Recent work includes taxation and social insurance, wages and labour-market inequality, education and child development, saving and consumption, health and retirement, firm innovation and productivity, and consumer behaviour. Our research uses administrative and longitudinal data, natural experiments, and other modern microeconometric methods to study the effects of policies and institutions on individuals, households, and firms.
Our empirical research benefits from strong links with the macroeconomics, development and environmental economics research areas, as well as with researchers outside the department in Statistics, Health Economics and Alliance Manchester Business School.
Staff
- James Banks - applied microeconometrics, consumer demand and savings behaviour, labour economics and health.
- Abhishek Chakravarty - gender inequality, policy evaluation, intra-household resource allocation in developing countries.
- Rachel Griffith - applied microeconometrics, applied industrial organisation and firm behaviour, innovation and productivity.
- Sofia Izquierdo Sanchez - applied microeconomics, industry studies, cultural economics.
- Jyotsana Kala - labour economics, macroeconomic theory.
- Riddhi Kalsi - labour economics, applied microeconometrics.
- Agnes Kovacs - applied microeconomics, behavioural economics, macroeconomics.
- Sonya Krutikova - education, labour economics, development economics.
- Nuno Palma - economic history, growth and development, monetary economics.
- Dan Rigby - applied microeconomics, food, agriculture, environment, health.
- Sebastian Seitz - public economics, labour economics, health economics.
- Panagiotis Sousounis - labour economics, human capital, economics of education.
- Alexander Squires - applied microeconometrics, public economics.
- Emma Tominey - family economics, labour economics, applied econometrics.
- Mazhar Waseem - public finance.
- Linchuan Xu - development economics, environmental economics, macro development.
Applied seminar
Our regular seminar series brings researchers from the UK and internationally to Manchester to present their latest work.