Professor of Economics @iseressex @Uni_of_Essex. Education, human capital, obesity, labour.
Colchester, England
Joined April 2012
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📣📣📣Job Alert 📣📣📣
Come work with me on children’s health and human capital!
@iseressex @MiSoC_Essex @Uni_of_Essex
📆2 year Post-Doc, start Oct 2025
📝Apply by 23 March
🔗More info: tinyurl.com/y54tuds3, or contact me.
Join us at Essex! Please share👋
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🚨 Job Alert 🚨
4-year postdoc position to work on my ERC project HARSH - Uncovering the Roots of Harsh Parenting.
📍 Dep. of Economics @DSE_Unibo, Bologna, Italy 🇮🇹
📅 Deadline: March 14, 2025
💡 Learn more and apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/…
#econtwitter #econjobmarket #ejm
Great talk today by Samuel Lado in our @iseressex lunchtime seminar. Children in Barcelona’s means-tested lunch clubs do better in Catalan - likely because they spend more time socialising with proficient speakers.
@ayllonsara @MiSoC_Essex
Great inaugural SEHO session at #ASSA2025. Presented on mental health effects of parenting (with @JoBlanden, @claire_l_crawf, @LauraFumagall17).
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This week's TOTC has opportunity hoarding, cheese hoarding, free school meals, evaluating AI, inefficient tax breaks, and the past & present of global trade. Something for everyone?
Featuring work by @AngusHolford, @rabe_b, @chalmermagne, @B3fuss.
resolutionfoundation.org/com…
Health economists, consider applying to this workshop held in Oxford 28-29 May 2025! Very happy to be giving a keynote and participating in the event.
@iseressex
Join the American-European Health Economics Study Group in Oxford, May 28–29, 2025!
📅 Deadline: Feb 28, 2025
Keynotes: @pierredubois66 & @rabe_b
Details:catianicodemo.com/files/AMER…
@MosconeF @JoanEMadia
@brunelbusiness @OxHealthEcon @Bruneluni
Excited to launch a new project with @AngusHolford today, looking at how providing free breakfast in school affects
•Attainment
•Absences/punctuality
•Bodyweight
•Mental health
More details here: tinyurl.com/4rp3dn5v
Thanks @NuffieldFound
@iseressex @MiSoC_Essex
🚀🌤️ New paper with @AngusHolford out in @JHealthEcon! Switching to universal free school meals reduces obesity in kids in England. Larger effects for younger children, but benefits seem cumulative over time.
Paper here 👇
tinyurl.com/yc7y2azm
@NuffieldFound @iseressex
Beautiful setting for the Empirical Health Economics Workshop in Pisa, a new venture into health economics for me #EHEW2024
Thanks so much to @DinandWebbink and Oliver Marie for hosting this year‘s #ESPE conference. Great venue and high-quality programme. Can’t wait for next year in Naples!
Emilia Del Bono kicking off this year’s #ESPE conference in Rotterdam. First session on child development was great, looking forward to the next few days! @MiSoC_Essex
Birgitta Rabe @rabe-b.bsky.social retweeted
Excited to co-organise the 1st Workshop "Economics of Childhood Nutrition", 26-27 June, featuring Diane Schanzenbach (keynote) and a great lineup! @dwschanz @Gabri_EllaConti @TheIFS @RHULECON
Register to join us: eepurl.com/iQzs1E
Programme: ifs.org.uk/sites/default/fil…
Stereotyping and ethnicity gaps in teacher assigned grades, our article is out now: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
@LauraFumagall17 @hettieburn @iseressex
Teachers seem to hold both positive and negative stereotypes towards ethnic minorities in England when they assign grades.
Celebrating excellence the @UniofEssex way with an impact award. More than one cause for celebration today! @iseressex @MiSoC_Essex
Amazing results on Sure Start!
NEW: Sure Start, England’s first large programme to provide holistic support to families with children under five, greatly improved disadvantaged children’s GCSE results.
Read @nridpathecon @Sarah_Cattan @carneiro_econ’s report, funded by @NuffieldFound: ifs.org.uk/publications/shor…
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Congratulations to our Professor Emilia Del Bono, Director of @ESRC @MiSoC_Essex @ResearchEssex announced as new Fellowship @AcadSocSciences today
We are delighted to welcome 41 leading social scientists, who highlight the importance of the #socialsciences in tackling society’s most pressing challenges, to our Fellowship. Look out for some of our new Fellows who will be introduced later today.
➡️acss.org.uk/news/the-academy…
📢📢Apply for the new workshop on causal impacts of school meals on children @univgirona, Girona Sep 19-20.
Deadline is 30 June
🥑🥕🍇
See call for papers here:
tinyurl.com/4ana8xt8
@ayllonsara @MiSoC_Essex @KristaRuffini
Excited to launch our results on the impact of universal free school meals @NuffieldFound today. @AngusHolford presenting @MiSoC_Essex
Presentation on the food environment at our launch event by Hannah Brindsen from the @Food_Foundation
