Experts

Neil Cummins is Associate Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. His research themes are life, love and death. His methods combine economic logic and historical sources with big data analytics. His research papers are available at neilcummins.com.

Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the Co-director of Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing. She also co-directs the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Currie is a pioneer in the economic analysis of child development. Her current research focuses on socioeconomic differences in health and access to health care, environmental threats to health, the important role of mental

Alessio D’Angelo is Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, where he leads the International Centre for Public and Social Policy (icPSP). He has extensive experience in conducting research on migration, social inequalities and access to public services, with a particular focus on education and the role of Third Sector organisations. His inter-disciplinary work includes quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods analysis and often employs international comparative perspectives.

Chris Dann is a pre-doctoral fellow at the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) at the London School of Economics (LSE). His main research interests focus on the political economy of development, especially with regards to state capacity and political selection. He is currently working on an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project – PERISCOPE – researching into multi-level governance and state capacity issues vis-á-vis Covid-19.

Krishna is a PhD candidate in economics at Harvard University working on microeconomic theory as well as psychology and economics. His research focuses on social and economic networks, including diffusion processes, social learning, and network formation.

Nikhil is a researcher at the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE and a PhD candidate in Economics at UCL. He works mainly in applied microeconomics with a focus on labour markets. His current research concerns minimum wages, atypical work arrangements, labour supply and monopsony power.