Experts

Petr Sedlá?ek is a CEPR Research Affiliate. His research mainly deals with macroeconomic questions, with a focus on business cycles, firm and worker heterogeneity. He has obtained the Starting Grant of the European Research Council for his project studying how entrepreneurship, startups and young firms impact the aggregate economy.

Marianne Sensier is an Economist and Research Fellow at the Alliance Manchester Business School. Marianne has worked on a number of ESRC, Leverhulme Trust and ESPON funded research projects. Research projects include the Industrial Strategy Commission and the Audit of Productivity for the Greater Manchester Independent Prosperity Review. Marianne is an associate member of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research at the AMBS.

Almudena Sevilla is a fellow of the Centre of Time Use Research at the University of Oxford. She has also held positions at Queen Mary University, University of Oxford, University of Essex Institute for Social and Economic Research, and the Congressional Budget Office in Washington DC.

Manisha Shah? is a development economist whose research interests lie at the intersection of microeconomics, health, and education with a focus on women and youth. ?Recent papers focus on violence against women and  regulation of sex markets. Shah is Professor of Public Policy at UCLA and Founder of the ?Global Lab for Research in Action?; ?a ?research institute? that ?pursues evidence-based solutions to critical health, education  and economic challenges faced by vulnerable populations around

William is currently a postdoctoral researcher based in the Cathie Marsh Institute (CMI) and a staff member in the Department of Sociology. He is currently working on an ESRC project entitled ‘Together and Apart: the Dynamics of Ethnic Diversity, Segregation and Social Cohesion among Young People and Adults’ with Dr James Laurence. William is also a UK Data Service Impact Fellow and a recipient of the ESRC Baltic Scholarship (University of Riga). William completed his PhD in Sociology with a

Sharot is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow. Her research focuses on how emotion, motivation and social factors influence our expectations, decisions and beliefs. Her papers have been published in top scientific journals including Nature, Science and Nature Neuroscience. Dr. Sharot is the author of The Optimism Bias (2011) and The Influential Mind (2017), both of which received the British Psychological Society Book Award. She has written essays for the popular press that have been