PhD Students

• On-the-Job Training and Human Capital
• Firm Heterogeneity
• Labour Market outcomes and Sorting
• Macro-Theory

Kezhen's current research interests lie in microeconomic theory, knowledge creation and evaluation.

Tuocheng's main research areas are microeconomic theory, game theory, information design, mechanism design.

Adolfo's primary research interest lies between labor economics and macroeconomics. Specifically on how frictions affect the labor market and how labor outcomes, such as wages, informality, and unemployment, can be affected by changes in the minimum wage, changes in the skill composition of workers, and increases in social security contributions. 

As a secondary interest, Adolfo is interested in how people's social capital influences different aspects of life, such as labor market outcomes, health, and life satisfaction, and how some environmental aspects, such as inequality, can ameliorate these relationships.

Kavisha's research interest lies in the area of macroeconomics with a focus on the effect of unconditional transfers and other human & social development policies on intergenerational mobility and inequality in a developing country context. Her current work focusses on understanding the role of education related policies in reducing child labour and informality, using quantitative macroeconomic models. 

• Applied Microeconometrics
• Labour Economics  
• Public Policy

• Applied Political Economy
• Quality of Political Governance
• Principal-Agent Relationship in Political Economy
• Text Analysis 

Kevin’s primary research interests are in the economics of science and R&D and knowledge based technologies, initially from macro and econometric perspectives. He will sooner or later likely find himself trying to understand search and matching of PhD graduates.

• Growth;
• Economic Transformation;
• Public Policy

Development Economics

Game Theory, Behavioural Economics, Searching and Matching

Jianxun's research interests lie in (evolutionary) game theory and its applications on cultural transmission and evolution. He is also interested in the political economy and gender inequality.

• Macroeconomics
• Labor markets
• firm size

• Macroeconomics
• Finance
• Growth and Development
• Computational Economics

• WP: Did low-skilled men crowd low-skilled women out of the UK labour market? 
• Hidden figures behind two-vehicle crashes: An assessment of the risk and external costs of drunk driving in Spain (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457519302726)

• Macro Labour Models
• Applied Labour Economics
• Gender discrimination and differentials

Macroeconomics

Labour economics

Intergenerational mobility

Macroeconomics, Public Economics, Financial Economics

Yating is interested in (evolutionary) game theory, behavioral and experimental economics.

Macroeconomics; Intergenerational mobility

Yaoyao is interested in behavioural and experimental economics.