Experts

Monica is an Associate Director at the IFS and a Research Economist at the Centre for Economics and Finance, University of Porto. Her research interests are mainly on Labour Economics and the Economics of Education, with a focus on the determinants of individual and household choices, including human capital investments, labour supply and intra-household allocation of resources, and their consequences for inequality and the evaluation and design of tax and welfare policies

Joan Costa-Font is an Associate Professor (Reader) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is a CESIfo and IZA Network research fellow. He has been Harkness Fellow at Harvard University, a visiting fellow at Boston College, Oxford University, and UCL, and visiting professor at Paris Dauphine University and Universita Cattolica.

Maria is a Research Officer at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Research Associate at the Wellbeing Research Centre based at Oxford University. She is a Labour Economist who works predominantly in policy evaluation. Her research focuses on wellbeing, inequality, the effects of deprivation and of poor economic experiences, and the well-functioning of labour markets.

Steph Coulter is a Research Assistant working across various aspects of the Bennett Institute ‘place’ programme. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MPhil in Politics and International Studies. He also holds a degree in International Relations from the University of St Andrews. His primary research interests are the rise of radical right populism, social democratic political theory and social class dynamics in 21st century Britain.

Andre is a second year Maths and Economics Undergraduate student at the University of Bristol.

Tyler Cowen is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and a long-time writer on the economics of the arts. His main book on arts policy is *Good & Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding*